Çakıroğlu, İdris2025-01-212025-01-2120201303-3123https://doi.org/10.26650/oba.559657https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/445420https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/23670Mehmet Fuad Köprülü, professor of the History of Turkish Literature at the Istanbul Darülfünun in an article titled “Türk Musikisi Tarihi” (History of Turkish Music, Tevhid-i Efkâr, 1924), praised and reviewed Rauf Yekta Bey's article “La Musique turque” formerly published in Paris. Köprülü, in the aforementioned article, had proposed that Rauf Yekta Bey write about “milli musiki” (national music) which is meant to be Turkish folk music. What are the reasons that make Turkish folk music “national”? Why and how did a concept called “national music” emerge? Why is the national character attributed to Turkish folk music not present in the “Turkish Music” mentioned by Rauf Yekta Bey? The answers to all these questions are closely related to the nationalistic movement that was deeply influential on musical culture. The current transliteration of Köprülü's Ottoman Turkish article into Latin script was completed in order to document the emergence of the concept of “national music” in Turkey. © 2020 Istanbul Universitesi. All rights reserved.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHistory of Turkish Music; Mehmet Fuad Köprülü; Rauf Yekta Bey; Turkish musicArticle21120521210.26650/oba.5596572-s2.0-85150395184Q3445420