Kavcar, CahitÜnver, Zeynep2022-06-022022-06-022010http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/80873In this study, it has been aimed to bring forward the contributions of advances made in music regarding polyphony between the years 1923 and 1940 to the implementation of Republican Reform and its being adopted by the society. This study is a despite one and the data have been obtained by scanning method.The thesis is constituted of four main chapters. Theoretical bases of the music art has been examined and the qualities of music art which distinguishes it from the other arts and effective power of the music which is being used in education, medicine and politics have been underlined in second main chapter of the study which follows the introduction. In third chapter, intellectual, historical and social bases of the Republican Reforms have been examined. Foundation stages of the Turkish music life have been examined by determining the contributions of music and music education to the new model of society which is desired to be established. In the fourth chapter, it has been evaluated how Ataturk?s expectations from music have been fulfilled as a result of advances made during this period and it has been precipitated that a certain national polyphonic music repertoire has been established, Western examples of the polyphonic music has taken place in social life with this new kind of music, polyphonic music has contributed for making the society adopt the modern values of the music but music has been left out of the agenda in the following years and musical reform has been left half finished.trÇoksesli müzikCumhuriyet devrimlerimasterThesis