We can obtain information from the available sources about the existence of many mystics, com posers, and poets in Erzurum, which is one of the cities where material and spiritual cultures were moved when the Turks entered Anatolia and its presence on the Silk Road. The material and spiritual cultures in question naturally contributed to the sociocultural development of the prov ince. Among these developments, the tradition of minstrel, which we can evaluate in the context of spiritual culture, and therefore music, was composed of poems written by Sufi people and folk poets at the beginning in Erzurum. In the ongoing process, the poems in question found ground in folk melodies and became widespread through meşk. Musicians, composers, and instrumen talists who crossed paths with Erzurum province after the republic for a reason contributed significantly to the interest and relevance of this city to Turkish art music. On this occasion, the poems of Sufis, folk poets, and poets from Erzurum were started to be composed and valuable works were created in this field. It has been concluded that Turkish art music studies in Erzurum are important in terms of maintaining the sociocultural structure of the society in the process from the past to the present and that Turkish art music has glitches and deficiencies in terms of both education and inclusion in the society.