Composition of works for orchestra of Turkish music instruments, acquirements in terms of performance of the work and orchestration

Since traditional Turkish music instruments don't have music composed for themselves, they are having improvement problems technically for many years. There has been problems while and after the composition of Soil Suite, which was designed as a three-part for an orchestra consisting of traditional Turkish music instruments, in a way that is completely out of the monophonic and polyphonic disintegration and in order to serve this need in our national music. Modern day education of our traditional instruments, trying the possibility of our solo instruments to take place in various tasks in an orchestra, the process of recording the aforementioned music and the acquirements gained from all these stages have formed the subject of this thesis. This study consists of six parts. In the introduction, which is the first chapter contains subject of the work, second chapter is general information about thesis and third chapter is about following process. In the fourth part, besides the notions of Turkish music, monophony, polyphony, there is also an overview of the development of polyphony in Turkey and issues of polyphony in Turkey. The fifth part is the chapter that explains the process of composition, performance, studio recording of Toprak Suite in detail and all the acquisitions gained from all these stages. It is emphasized in the sixth part of the study which is the conclusion part, the necessity of composing new music for our traditional instruments and ensembles contain these instruments, in order our traditional instruments and the artists performing with these instruments to develop both technically and musically. Keywords: Turkish Music, Orchestration, Composition, Instrument