Rauf Yekta

Rauf Yekta Bey (27 March 1871 – 8 January 1935) was a Turkish musician, musicologist and writer on music.

Rauf Yekta was born on 27 March 1871, in the Aksaray area of Istanbul, Turkey to his father Ahmed Arif Bey.

Yekta wrote the first modern account of Turkish classical music available in a Western language (Raouf Yekta Bey, "La musique turque", in Encyclopedie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire, edited by Albert Lavignac, Première partie, Volume V, pp.

His emphasis in this encyclopedia article was on intervals, modes and rhythms, quoting some 73 musical examples.

[1] The present-day theory of Turkish classical music is the result of collaboration by Yekta with Dr. Suphi Ezgi (1869–1962) and H. Sadettin Arel (1880–1955).