APPLICATIONS OF MUSIC AND THE KEY FEATURES OF PIANO MUSICS IN GURDJIEFF METHOD

In the early 20th century, using wide range of material in his music, Gurdjieff presents an art focused teaching method to the West. Using music as a practical tool, with its creation process which was infront of the audience, those music have a unique approach. Meant to be received by western audience, the music has a very strange quality to categorize with its symbolical content and mixed material. Targeting a universal human model with its distance to all kind of believe sytems, the method also has a sharp criticism about modernism with its off the chart, provocative and dissonant speech and its deep symbolic tools, which had not been recognized very soon. The content becomes visible with readings under the scope of the method aiming the harmony of mind, body and emotion. Extra musical tendency is a distinct quality of the applications which focuses on experience and targetting human perception in different scales, is still waiting to be invastigated. The aim of the research is to grasp a perspective about the music in relation to the method. Further, Gurdjieff’s original text which is the main material of the reseach; on why and whereabouts of usage of music and its basics