FLÜT REPERTUVARINDA YUNAN MİTOLOJİSİNİN YERİ VE MİTOLOJİK KARAKTER PAN’IN ETKİLERİ
GREEK MYTHOLOGY IN FLUTE REPERTORY AND THE EFFECTS OF MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER PAN

Summary/Abstract: Mythology has been a source of inspiration for many kinds of arts such as literature, music, painting and sculpture. In particular, the Western art, which was nurtured from the ancient Greek civilization and Greek mythology, has found its special place today. As in many different areas of music, the flute repertoire also has works inspired by mythology. It can be said that the flute is perhaps the most suitable instrument for describing a semi-goat half human Pan who is an important mythological character in music. In this study, in order to interpret better the Pan themed works in the flute repertory, it is firstly focused on to present Greek mythology, the place of music in mythology, the importance of the instruments and the ethos of the instruments in the mythology, who is the character of Pan, the relationship of Pan with the flute, how the composers process Pan in their flute work. As a result of the literature reviews, it is concluded that there is a special relationship between the flute and the Pan character, and in the flute works it is concluded that the the flute plays Pan theme with the scales which are reflecting the Greek modes.

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