Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
200800306101MUSICOLOGY IICompulsory363
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to provide students the history and content of systematic musicology and its parent and subdisciplines and related interdisciplinary fileds and introduces their methods and thechniques, basically.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Tolga ERGÜL
Learning Outcomes
1Define systematic musicology within the context of its historical and current disciplinary structures,
2Explain the theoretical and applicational differences of systematic musicology from the historical musicology and ethnomusicology,
3Explain the theory, method and techniques of systematic musicology basically,
4Explain the opportunities of systematic musicology which provide solutions to the epistemological problems occured in interdisciplinary music research,
5Present the results of a research on one of the domains of systematic musicology in written and orally.
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course Contents
Historical fundamentals of systematic musicology Epistemological background of systematic musicology Parent and sub-disciplines of systematic musicology Interdisciplinary music research Music and Mathematics Biology of music Psychology of music Neuroscience of music
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Historical fundamentals of systematic musicology
2Epistemological background of systematic musicology
3Parent and sub-disciplines of systematic musicology
4Parent and sub-disciplines of systematic musicology
5Interdisciplinary music research
6Music and Mathematics
7Psychology of music
8Biology and music
9Midterm exam
10Neuroscience and music
11Acoustic and bioacoustic
12Music and computer sciences
13Discussions
14Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Parncutt, Richard. 2007. Systematic musicology and the history and future of Western musical scholarship, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 1, 1-32. Parncutt, Richard & Gedik, Ali Cenk. 2008. Interdisciplinarity in JIMS, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, http://www.musicstudies.org/infor.html Schneider, Albrecht. 2006. Comparative and Systematic Musicology in Relation to Ethnomusicology: A Historical and Methodological Survey, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 50, No. 2, , pp. 236-258 Leman, Marc. 2008. Systematic musicology at the crossroads of modern music research, In Schneider, A. (Ed.), Systematic and Comparative Musicology: Concepts, Methods, Findings. Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 24. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 89-115. Yardımcı kaynaklar: Gedik, Ali Cenk. 2014. Marksizmin Doğa Bilimlerinden Kopuşunu Müzik Bilimleri Tarihi üzerinden Düşünmek, Bilim üzerine Marksist Tartışmalar: Marksizm Bilime Yabancı mı , (ed. Alper Dizdar), Yazılama Yay., İstanbul. Gedik, Ali Cenk. 2013. Evrimi Müzik üzerinden Düşünmek, IV. Evrim, Bilim ve Eğitim Sempozyumu, 21-22 Aralık, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi. Erol, Ayhan. 2004. Müziğin Kökenine İlişkin Teoriler, Folklor / Edebiyat Halkbilim, Etnoloji, Antropoloji, Müzikoloji, Tarih, Edebiyat: Üç Aylık Kültür Dergisi, Popüler Müzik Özel Bölümü Cilt: 10 Sayı: 39, sf. 25-49. Özer,Yetkin. 2002. Müzik Etnografisi: Alan çalışmasında Yöntem ve Teknik, İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Yayınları. Özer,Yetkin. 1997. Bilim Perspektifinden Müzik, İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Yayınları.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination160
Attending Lectures110
Criticising Paper110
Individual Study for Mid term Examination110
Reading110
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination180
Individual Study for Final Examination120
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14114
Discussion111
Criticising Paper5210
Individual Study for Mid term Examination9218
Individual Study for Final Examination14228
Reading8216
Homework5315
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)104
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