MZJ 519 - Transcription and Analysis in Traditional Musics

Course Objectives

• To discuss the conceptual framework of transcription and analysis in music studies.
• To acknowledge the development of transcription and analysis in historical context.
• To examine transcription and analysis methods in various written and oral traditions.
• To experience transcription and analysis by means of traditional and contemporary methods.
• To develop musicological discourses with the data acquired from transcriptions and analyses.

Course Description

Transcription and notation in musicological inquiry. History of transcription in musicology. Use of various notations in transcriptions, discourse on visual representation of sound, comparisons on diverse methods. Analysis in musicological study, relationship between transcription and analysis. Transcription and analysis on multimedia studies and critical theory, recent trends. Computer supported transcription and analysis approaches, computational musicology. Reviews on the transcriptions and analysis in selected monographs.