Dream and music in Ahmet Hamdi̇ Tanpinar's works

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar has a prominent place in Turkish literature with his work that he has written in different genres. Tanpınar's sophisticated personality and cultural richness has reflected into his works in various forms. In this study, it has tried to determine and analysis "dream" and "music" elements in Tanpınar's art aesthetic. There are some studies which determine the "dream" and "music" elements in Tanpınar's works severally and analyse the novel A Mind at Peace in the perspective of "music" elements. But there is no study which analyse the "dream" and "music" elements in Tanpınar's complete works together in detail. In this study firstly, Tanpınar's life and works has briefly mentioned. It was tried to give brief information on Psychoanalysis and some studies because of the part of dream related to the literature directed us toward Freud and therefore scientific studies. Then, seeing the effect of dream from past to present time in many fields, it was explained the role of dreams in various religions and cultures and being theme of branches of art such as cinema and painting. In the Music section, it was tried to explain the interaction between literature and music by taking literature as center. As a result of research, it was found that Tanpınar uses "dream" and "music" elements for many purposes in his art. Tanpınar uses the "dream" and "music" elements as medium for figure of speech, beauty criteria, composition, civilization comparison and identity creation. The source of Tanpınar's some works title directly comes from "dream" and "music". This situation which can be observed in the Tanpınar's recent works as well as in the early works shows obviously the "dream" and "music" elements in his art aesthetic.