Bir Düalite Ekseninde Beş Analiz: Saygun, Opus 76
Özet
Op. 76 is not only Saygun's last completed work, but also his first and only Piano Sonata. With
its characteristics, the work has the potential to reflect the composer's cumulative musical
cache; it offers an important field of study to identify the components that Saygun used to
create his unique musical language.
At different points in the third and fourth movements of the work, a theme that is repeated
five times draws attention. The design of the theme is characterized by simple melodies, often
over a specific pedal sound, and simultaneously announced, texturally dense clusters of
sounds. However, there is a remarkable point here: The pitch that determines the trajectory
of the simple melodies is not the same as the pitch that usually preferred as the pedal sound.
These two poles (reb-do), being consecutive, exert an enormous gravitational pull on each
other, leading to an ambiguity as to "what the axis sound is".
In this study, the answer to this question was sought, and for this purpose, a multidimensional
analysis was conducted on the basis of "pitch organization" and "pedal ideas" in the five
variants in which the theme is exhibited.
As a result of the analysis, the following two critical findings were reached:
iv
The composer creates tonal, modal and maqamic atmospheres simultaneously -with an
understanding of "duality"- and uses the concept of biaxiality as the most characteristic
element of the theme.
The designs of the melodic and rhythmic structures of the theme are realized through the
integration of various modules.
