Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
201100201708MUSİC CULTURE OF TURKEYElective473
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The objective of the course is to make the students have the overall information about the Turkish music; giving information about the makam and usul concepts in Turkish music, giving information about the Turkish music history and making observations and exemplifying various songs in Turkish music.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1Overall information about Turkish music.
2Information about makam concept.
3Information about usul concept.
4Introducing the Turkish music instruments.
5Detailed informations and studying about the Turkish music history from past to future.
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
none
Recommended Optional Programme Components
none
Course Contents
The content of the subject is to make detailed observations in Turkish music history to help the students to gain the perspective for the Turkish music.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Music in pre-Islamic Turks.nonenone
2Mehter music and its genres, sound systems in Mehter music, rhythm, composition forms, instruments, wind and percussion instruments, closing and after Mehterhane.nonenone
3Musical culture in Anatolia before the Ottoman Empirenonenone
4Music education in the Ottoman Empire, Enderun-i Humayun, the formation phase of traditional Turkish classical music, Turkish music in the Fatih period and 15th century sources.nonenone
5The concept of maqam in Turkish Music, Religious Turkish music, Mosque and Lodge music, Non-religious composition forms.nonenone
6Traditional Turkish art music between the 15th and 19th centuries. Kar, composition, peşrev, mevlevi ritual forms.nonenone
7Ali Ufki Bey and Prince Dimitri Kantemir, Istanbul Palace music, Hafız Post, Mustafa Itri, Nayi Osman Dede, Tamburi Mustafa Çavuş, Tanburi Isak.nonenone
8midterm examnonenone
9History of Western music Turkish music relations, traditional Turkish music after 1826.nonenone
10Hamamcıoğlu İsmail Dede Efendi, Hacı Arif Bey, Şevki Bey, Muallim İsmail Hakkı Bey.nonenone
11Music notation in the Ottoman Empire, Notacı Emin Efendi, Şamlı Iskender Kudmani, modernization of music in the Tanzimat Period, Darülelhan, Tamburi Cemil Bey. Musical plays and operettas in Turkish music.nonenone
12Polyphonic Turkish music in the Ottoman Empire.nonenone
13Music policy of the Republic; its effects on today's music culture, the change of Turkish music theory since the 20th century. Turkish music in the 1930s and 1940s.nonenone
14final examnonenone
Recommended or Required Reading
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
none
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Discussion15115
Question-Answer15115
Report Preparation339
Report Presentation111
Individual Study for Mid term Examination248
Individual Study for Final Examination4416
Reading15115
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)81
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