Introduction to the art of music of Fârâbî's Kitâb Musika'l Kebir translate-writing and review

Al-Fârâbî, the greatest known Islamic philosopher, with a strong intelligence, perseverence, command of many languages other than Arabic, a mathematician and his reputation as the second Aristotle, also showed his fame as the greatest of theorist scholars in the art of music, Fârâbî, who said to have played the oud and sang in his childhood and when his beard started to grow after his witty expression "every song is sung between the beard and mustache, this is not nice", he broke away from music and took it upon himself to read everything in philosophy, logic and theoretical sciences and followed the the knowledge. He is not only a great genius of the Turkish-Islamic world, but also auniversal genius with his contrubuıtions to science, philosophy and music. Some of the Works written by Fârâbî on music are as follows: Kitab Musika'l-Kebir, Kitâbu'l-Îka'at, Kitab Ihsa'ul-Ika'at. However there is asection on music in Kitab İhsa'ul Ulum, but the subject of the book covers all the sciences of its time. In this study, apart from Fârâbî's known contributions as a philosoher and scientist, it is aimed to bring into Turkish the first two articles of his book "Kitab Musika El-Kebir", which has an important place in the history of music and has not been translated into Tukish yet. In this thesis, in which the first two articles of Kitab Musika El-Kebir were translated into Turkish, document analysis and translation techniques, which are qualitative research methods were used. With this study, the first two articles of the Al-Medhal ila Sına'atil Music section of Kitab Musika'l-Kebir, which is the biggest of the theoretical and applied music studies that Fârâbî has brought to Turkish-İslamic art with his musician and musicologist aspect, which is overshadowed by his philosopher personality, are presented in Turkish translation has been provided. In the first article, while the subjects such as sounds, melody, the formation of melody, the emergence of instruments and art education, which form the basic of musical art, were mentioned. In the second article, the situations of sound in melody, sound intervals, genera, scales, numerical relations in sound intervals, octaves and degrees are discussed.