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Makale Özeti:
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Structuralist thought has had an immense influence on scholars
from various disciplines including music studies since the early years of
the twentieth century. The influence of Saussure’s revolutionary ideas
incorporating synchronic approaches into the study of language was
extremely powerful. Anthropological studies share almost the same
background with linguistics in terms of focusing on more scientific basis.
Developments beginning from the early nineteenth century mark
anthropology’s attempts to distinguish itself as a scientific field. Music, in
a similar fashion, had always been close to language since both
considered a communication system and had endeavoured to differentiate
its studies from those of other sciences for a long time, seemed more than
ready for its own revolution. Ethnomusicology, the study of social and
cultural aspects of music, has also had a strong relationships with
anthropology on which structuralism has made its strongest impact. This
article traces structuralist principles and theories shaped by linguistics and
anthropology that their methodologies and approaches have provided a
great support for the underpinning of musical structuralism, employed
particularly in music analysis, musicology, and ethnomusicology.
Regardless of criticisms structuralist approaches receive, any musical
work and its analysis either its cultural or musical context would be
considered incomplete without the consideration structural methods.
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