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Adnan Atalay

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Adnan Atalay
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Adnan Atalay, Turkish composer and musicologist
Born1952 (age 73–74)
Kayseri, Turkey
🏳️ NationalityTurkish
💼 Occupation
Music educator, musicologist, and composer

Adnan Atalay (born 1952, Kayseri) is a Turkish music educator, musicologist, and composer.[1][2]

His work includes polyphonic choral compositions and arrangements, piano pieces collected in his album Camdaki Damlalar (“Drops on the Glass”), and musicological research and publications.[3][4] He has published the choral collection Polifonik Koro için 10 Parça and textbooks on music theory and notation, including Nota Yazım Kuralları ve Türk Müziğinde Nota Yazımı and the co-authored series Müzik Teorisi (Armoni ve Kontrpuan).[5][6][7]

Education and career

He completed the Music Seminar Program of the Ankara Boys’ Primary Teachers’ School in 1970 and graduated from the Music Department of the Gazi Education Institute in 1973.[8][9]

In 1974, he was appointed as an assistant in Music Theory (harmony and counterpoint) and Ear Training in the same department.[8]

During his assistantship period under the guidance of Nurhan Cangal, in addition to the structured four-year assistantship program, he collaborated with Cangal to prepare the instructional books Müzik Teorisi (Armoni ve Kontrpuan) I–III by revising and completing the harmonized examples of Prof. Eduard Zuckmayer.[8][10] Beginning in 1976, these volumes were published by YAYKUR (Open Higher Education Institution) as course materials in harmony and counterpoint.[10]

Under the guidance of Nurhan Cangal and Erdoğan Okyay, Atalay completed his assistantship thesis titled A Solfège Method Based on Turkish Folk Music in 1978. Following this, he was appointed as an instructor in Music Theory (harmony and counterpoint) and Ear Training in the same department.[8][4]

A year later, Atalay transferred to the newly established Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ege University, where he became an assistant in Counterpoint History. During his second four-year assistantship under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gültekin Oransay, Atalay expanded his studies beyond harmony, counterpoint, and ear training to include historical music writings, the physics of sound, and Ottoman transcription.[8]

In 1983, Atalay was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Music at Dokuz Eylül University’s Buca Faculty of Education, where he taught courses in harmony, counterpoint, musical forms, analysis, traditional Turkish art music and related topics.[8][4]

In 1989, Atalay completed a master's degree in the Department of Musicology at Dokuz Eylül University’s Institute of Social Sciences with a thesis titled Geleneksel Türk Sanat Musikisinde Perde Dizgeleri ("Pitch Systems in Traditional Turkish Art Music") and received the title of “science specialist”.[11][12] In the same period, he also received his “proficiency in art” diploma in musicology.[8]

Research and publications

Atalay has written extensively on Turkish music theory, notation, and pedagogy. He is the author of the 58-page article "Müzik Yazıları" ("Musical Notation") published in volume 3 (1985) of the Say Müzik Ansiklopedisi, edited by Ahmet Say. In the editorial note preceding the article, Say described it as a research-based and comprehensive study and expressed his gratitude to Atalay for preparing what he considered the first work of its scope published in Turkey.[13][14] The article, divided into five main sections, surveys various historical musical notations, ranging from alphabetic writings, tablatures, Dasia notation, and neumatic notation used in European musical traditions to modern staff notation and contemporary music writing. It also discusses historical musical notations used in Turkish music writing, such as Ebced notation, Kantemiroğlu (Cantemir) notation, Hamparsum notation, and Ali Ufki’s notation.[15]

Later, when the Say Müzik Ansiklopedisi was reformatted and republished in three volumes, long articles such as "Müzik Yazıları" were omitted from the new edition. As the final four-volume set went out of print, Atalay made the original text available on his official website for use by musicology researchers.[16]

Atalay also contributed to Nurhan Cangal’s book Armoni (Arkadaş Publishing, Ankara; 1st ed. 1999, 2nd ed. 2002) and wrote the first five chapters of the revised edition, which summarize the sections on harmony from the Müzik Teorisi I–III books co-authored and published by Atalay and Cangal in 1976–1977. These 87 pages, as stated in the book’s preface, were written by Atalay.[17]

Atalay has contributed articles to periodicals including Musichall, Konser Arkası, and AKOB magazines.[18][19][20][21] He shares his musicological research with the academic community through conferences and seminars at various universities; for example, in April 2025 he delivered an online lecture at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University titled "Türk ve Batı Müziği Ses (Perde) Sistemlerine Bakışımızdaki Selenbilimsel ve Tarihsel Yanlışlar".[22][23]

Compositions

Piano works

Atalay’s piano output is centred on the collection Camdaki Damlalar (“Drops on the Glass”), which includes 30 works — 21 original pieces and 9 arrangements — composed between 1972 and 2019. The first edition of the album was published in 2015 (ISBN 9786054957187 Search this book on .), with an expanded edition in 2019.[3] Two of the original pieces, "Kurşun Kalem" and "Türkü", were included in the anthology Piyano Repertuarı (“Piano Repertoire”) prepared by Birim and Alper Görsev (ISBN 9789944033015 Search this book on .).

Choral works

His choral catalogue includes original works and arrangements for mixed choir. The collection Polifonik Koro için 10 Parça ("Ten Pieces for Polyphonic Choir"), published by Müzik Eğitimi Yayınları in 2010 (ISBN 9786058933576 Search this book on .), brings together pieces such as "Bir Kayseri Türküsü Üzerine Varyasyonlar 'Çarşıya Vardım'", "Sözsüz Şarkı 'Tenni'" and "Bahar Türküsü".[5]

Orchestral works

Atalay has also written orchestral works. Among these, his suite Resimler Süiti (Pictures Suite) was published in 2002 in the Ministry of Culture collection Gençlik Orkestraları için Dağarcık.[24]

Academic works and publications

Atalay’s academic output covers music theory, notation, pedagogy, and Turkish musicology, including textbooks, lecture notes, and published research.

  • Müzik Teorisi (Armoni ve Kontrpuan) I–III (with Nurhan Cangal), YAYKUR, 1976–77 — official textbooks for music departments in teacher training institutes in Turkey.[7]
  • Türk Halk Müziğine Dayalı Solfej Metodu, G.E.E. Music Department assistantship graduation thesis, Ankara, 1978
  • Nota Yazım Kuralları ve Türk Müziğinde Nota Yazımı, Müzik Eğitimi Yayınları, Ankara, 2019. (ISBN 9786054957651 Search this book on .)[6]
  • Author of "Müzik Yazıları" in Ahmet Say’s Müzik Ansiklopedisi (vol. 3, pp. 890–946, 1985).[25]

Atalay’s works on music theory and music notation, in particular the co-authored textbook Müzik Teorisi (Armoni ve Kontrpuan) and his encyclopedia article Müzik Yazıları, have been cited as standard reference sources in numerous articles, graduate theses and course programmes on harmony, makam theory and Turkish music notation.[26][27][28][29][30] Biographical entries on Atalay and summaries of his work have appeared in Turkish music reference works such as Ahmet Say's Müzik Ansiklopedisi and Onur Akdoğu's Ege'de Müzikçiler Ansiklopedisi (İzmir ve İlçeleri).[31][32]

Selected articles

  • "TÜRK MÜZİĞİNDE 'KOMALI SES' VAR MIDIR?", Ege Üniversitesi Devlet Türk Musikisi Konservatuvarı Dergisi, no. 7 (2016), pp. 39–62 (in Turkish).[33]
  • "Türkiye’de koro kültürünün dünü ve bugünü", AKOB (Akdeniz Opera ve Bale Kulübü Kültür-Sanat Dergisi), no. 67 (2022), pp. 30–35 (in Turkish).[21]
  • "Müzik terminolojimizde kargaşa", Musichall magazine, first issue (2021) (in Turkish).[18][19]
  • "Çağdaş Türk Müziği üzerine düşünceler", Konser Arkası music magazine, "Sandık" column, issue 5 (February 2022) (in Turkish).[20]

Atalay’s harmony textbooks and approach to harmony education have also been examined in graduate research.[34] His contributions are discussed in a 2011 master's thesis by Doruk Engür at Uludağ University, which evaluates the contributions of Turkish music theorists to harmony education and the use of their published harmony textbooks in music teacher training.[34] A 2025 master's thesis by Cemre Mansur at Gazi University examined contemporary Turkish piano works in the context of piano education and included a detailed analysis of the technical level, pianistic features and harmonisation techniques of Atalay’s Camdaki Damlalar alongside works by Muammer Sun, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Fazıl Say and other Turkish composers.[35]

Atalay has contributed articles to periodicals including Musichall, Konser Arkası, and AKOB magazines.[18][19][20][21] He also shares his musicological research with the academic community through conferences, seminars, and workshops at various institutions. For example, in 2016 he took part in the “100 Ses Koro Okulu” (“100 Voices Choir School”) winter camp hosted by Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus.[36] In April 2025 he delivered an online lecture at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University titled "Türk ve Batı Müziği Ses (Perde) Sistemlerine Bakışımızdaki Selenbilimsel ve Tarihsel Yanlışlar".[22][23] In May 2025 he gave a conference at Pamukkale University’s Faculty of Music and Performing Arts titled "Müzikte Çoksesliliğin Evrimi".[37] In September 2025 he gave another conference at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University’s Faculty of Music and Performing Arts as part of the faculty’s Wednesday events, again on the theme "Müzikte Çoksesliliğin Evrimi".[38]

Awards and recognition

  • Outstanding Service Award in Choral Music, 15th Çanakkale International Choir Festival (2015).[39]
  • He is listed among the musicians and educators who have contributed to the Music Education Department at Gazi University’s Gazi Faculty of Education.[40]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ahmet Say (ed.), Müzik Ansiklopedisi, 1. Cilt, Sözkesen Matbaası, Ankara, Eylül 2005, ISBN 975-7436-32-1 Search this book on . / ISBN 975-7436-31-3 Search this book on . (takım no), p. 121, “Adnan Atalay” entry.
  2. ↑ Akdoğu, Onur (1997). "Adnan Atalay". Ege'de Müzikçiler Ansiklopedisi (İzmir ve İlçeleri) (in Türkçe). İzmir: Metro Matbaacılık. p. 31. ISBN 975-95066-1-0. Search this book on
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Camdaki Damlalar piyano parçaları". Kaşif (in Türkçe). Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Atalay, Adnan. "Bilimsel Çalışmaları". adnanatalay.com (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Polifonik Koro için 10 Parça". Kaşif (in Türkçe). Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Nota Yazım Kuralları ve Türk Müziğinde Nota Yazımı". Kaşif (in Türkçe). Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Müzik Teorisi (Armoni ve Kontrpuan) I. sınıf". Kaşif (in Türkçe). Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Atalay, Adnan (2025). ""Müzik Eğitiminin Absolut ve Sinestet Öğrenciler Üzerindeki Etkileri" – biyografi" (PDF). 15. Uluslararası Hisarlı Ahmet Sempozyumu Özet Kitabı (in Türkçe). Hisarlı Ahmet Sempozyumu. pp. 127–128.
  9. ↑ Akdoğu, Onur (1997). Ege'de Müzikçiler Ansiklopedisi (İzmir ve İlçeleri) (in Türkçe). İstanbul: Onur Akdoğu. ISBN 9789759506612. Search this book on ; Ahmet Say (ed.), Müzik Ansiklopedisi, 1. Cilt, Sözkesen Matbaası, Ankara, 2005, ISBN 975-7436-32-1 / 975-7436-31-3.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Cebe, Rohat (2020). "A Brief Analysis on the Main Course Books Music Theory in Turkey". International Journal of Scientific and Technological Research. 6 (6): 179–182.
  11. ↑ "Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Müzik Bilimleri Anabilim Dalı tez arşivi" (PDF). gse.deu.edu.tr (in Türkçe). Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi. Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  12. ↑ Atalay, Adnan (1989). Geleneksel Türk Sanat Musikisinde Perde Dizgeleri (Master's thesis) (in Türkçe). İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü.
  13. ↑ Say, Ahmet (1985). Ahmet Say, ed. Müzik Ansiklopedisi (in Türkçe). 3. Ankara: Sözkesen Matbaası. p. 890. Search this book on
  14. ↑ Atalay, Adnan (2015). "TÜRK MÜZİĞİNDE "KOMALI SES" VAR MIDIR?". Ege Üniversitesi Devlet Türk Musikisi Konservatuvarı Dergisi (in Türkçe) (6): 13–35. Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  15. ↑ Atalay, Adnan. "Müzik Yazıları (Notation)". adnanatalay.com (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  16. ↑ "Adnan Atalay – official website". adnanatalay.com (in Türkçe). Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  17. ↑ Nurhan Cangal, Armoni, Arkadaş Yayınevi, 1st ed. 1999; 2nd ed. 2002, Preface.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Atalay, Adnan. "MÜZİK TERMİNOLOJİMİZDE KARGAŞA". adnanatalay.com (in Türkçe). Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 "Yeni müzik dergisi MusicHall yayın hayatına başladı". Cazkolik (in Türkçe). 30 October 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 "Konser Arkası Müzik Dergisi – Şubat 2022 sayısı" (PDF). Konser Arkası (in Türkçe). Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Atalay, Adnan. "Türkiye'de koro kültürünün dünü ve bugünü". AKOB (in Türkçe). Akdeniz Opera ve Bale Kulübü. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "BAİBÜ'den online konferans… BAİBÜ'de müzik sistemlerine bilimsel ve tarihsel bakış…". Bolu Gündem (in Türkçe). 16 April 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "BAİBÜ'den kaçırılmayacak konferans… Müzikteki doğru bilinen yanlışlar tartışılacak…". Bolu Olay (in Türkçe). 16 April 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  24. ↑ "Gençlik Orkestraları için Dağarcık". Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Yayınlar Dairesi Başkanlığı (in Türkçe). T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  25. ↑ "Müzik Yazıları (Ahmet Say, Müzik Ansiklopedisi, vol. 3)". Kaşif (in Türkçe). Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  26. ↑ Cebe, Rohat (2020). "A Brief Analysis on the Main Course Books Music Theory in Turkey". Journal of Scientific and Technological Research. 6 (6): 179–182.
  27. ↑ Cebe, Rohat (2020). "Müzik Teorisi Dersindeki Üç Sesli Akorlar Konusunun Pratik Öğretilmesi Üzerine Yaklaşımlar". Batman Üniversitesi Yaşam Bilimleri Dergisi (in Türkçe). 10 (2): 70–76.
  28. ↑ Yener, Mine (2015). "Hamparsum Defterinden Günümüze "Musi'nin Sazkâr Saz Semâisi"". Rast Müzikoloji Dergisi (in Türkçe). 3 (2): 877–888. doi:10.12975/rastmd.2015.03.02.00045.
  29. ↑ Greve, Martin (2017). Makamsız: Individualization of Traditional Music on the Eve of Kemalist Turkey (PDF). Istanbuler Texte und Studien. 39. Würzburg: Ergon. Search this book on
  30. ↑ Bozkurt, Barış (2014). "Computational analysis of Turkish makam music: Review of state-of-the-art, challenges and future directions". Journal of New Music Research. 43 (1): 3–23. doi:10.1080/09298215.2013.865760.
  31. ↑ Ahmet Say (ed.), Müzik Ansiklopedisi, 1. Cilt, Sözkesen Matbaası, Ankara, Eylül 2005, ISBN 975-7436-32-1 Search this book on . / ISBN 975-7436-31-3 Search this book on . (takım no), p. 121, “Adnan Atalay” entry.
  32. ↑ Akdoğu, Onur (1997). "Adnan Atalay". Ege'de Müzikçiler Ansiklopedisi (İzmir ve İlçeleri) (in Türkçe). İzmir: Metro Matbaacılık. p. 31. ISBN 975-95066-1-0. Search this book on
  33. ↑ Atalay, Adnan (2016). "TÜRK MÜZİĞİNDE "KOMALI SES" VAR MIDIR?". Ege Üniversitesi Devlet Türk Musikisi Konservatuvarı Dergisi (in Türkçe) (7): 39–62. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Engür, Doruk (2011). Müzik kuramcılarımızın kaynaklar açısından armoni eğitimine katkılarının değerlendirilmesi (Master's thesis) (in Türkçe). Bursa: Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü. p. 110. hdl:11452/8769. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  35. ↑ Mansur, Cemre (2025). Çağdaş dönem Türk eserlerinin piyano eğitimi ekseninde incelenmesi (Master's thesis) (in Türkçe). Ankara: Gazi Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü.
  36. ↑ "100 Ses Koro Okulu Ekibinden DAÜ Rektörlüğü'ne Ziyaret". Eastern Mediterranean University (in Türkçe). 3 February 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  37. ↑ "PAÜ'de Bu Hafta (5 - 11 Mayıs 2025)". Pamukkale Üniversitesi (in Türkçe). 5 May 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  38. ↑ "Adnan Atalay İle Çoksesliliğin Tarihi Konuşuldu". Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Müzik ve Sahne Sanatları Fakültesi (in Türkçe). 25 September 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  39. ↑ "2015 Archive – 15th Çanakkale International Choir Festival". Çanakkale International Choir Festival (in Türkçe). Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  40. ↑ "Anabilim Dalımıza Emeği Geçenler". Gazi Üniversitesi Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü Müzik Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı (in Türkçe). Gazi University. Retrieved 20 November 2025.


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