DESCRIPTION OF MUSIC SCIENCE FORMED BY ISLAMIC CULTURE: EXPRESSION PURPOSES OF NATURAL, UNNATURAL SOUNDS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Abstract

Al-Farabi researched the art philosophy of antique age – ethical-aesthetic values and in the article is dealt with the evaluation of music researches as a branch of his general scientific creativity. His treatise “Kitab al-Musiga al-Kabir” accepted as creative traditions and rich heritage is on the same line with great examples of medieval art such as Al-Khwarizm’s “The Key to Knowledge” and Ibn Sina’s “The Healing Book”. In addition to musical knowledge, this treatise contains extensive and detailed information about the performance culture existed in the East for centuries.

Al-Farabi’s classification of knowledge is the tendency of perfection and his multidisciplinary analysis and research of theoretical goals is explained with philosophical logic sources and the success qualities of the allegation. In his conclusions the natural ones of these criteria are expressed in perfect (fast, better) and artistic dimensions, and unnatural ones are explained by the logic of not achieving any goal.

The great scholar supports the logic of “sounds that are the basis of this art and their researches are not limited and they are studied by the laws of theory of natural and unnatural unity of voice”. The extraordinary abilities based on this logic is comprehended by combination of concepts such as feeling, ability, thinking, action and perfection.