TECHNICAL AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE OP.113 ETUDE BOOK BY SEBASTIAN LEE

Ezgi ÖZKAN¹ , Şebnem YILDIRIM ORHAN ²

This is a descriptive study, technically and stylistically analyzing the first etude in Sebastian Lee’s Op.113 Etude Book which is commonly used at cello courses taught at the Faculties of Education Divisions of Music Teaching in Turkey. In the research, among the qualitative research methods, content analysis model is used. With this study, it is aimed to gain individuals, who operate in this field, an analytical perspective and enable them to make their practice more productive with a rationalist approach. In the research, with its technical features, contributions of the etude to the player in terms of development are investigated. As a result of the analysis, it is found the etude number 1 which was composed in total of 71 measure Do Majör, was written like a song of 3 parts as A B A1, the etude contribute to the development of vibrato, flogele shift, position shifts, arpeggio playing, fingering, articulation and preparing the sound patterns in the left hand; and equal bow use, different-speeded bow use, legato, nuance-based bow use, stressed playing, attack bow use, whole bow use and different consecutive bow uses in the right hand.

Keywords
Etude, Etude Analysis, Sebastian Lee Op.113, Cello Education, Cello,