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Course Name	Turkish	Gelenek.Müzik.Transk.&Analiz
	English	Transcription and Analysis in Traditional Musics
Course Code	MZJ 519	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Serkan Şener
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.
Course Outcomes		I. Knowledge on the musical notation systems used by different cultures in the history, II. Skills and expertise on transcription techniques in music research. III. Expertise on analyzing audio-visual music sources. IV. Competence on using transcriptions and analyses on musicological studies.
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Textbook		• Tenzer, Michael and John Roeder [ed.]. 2011. Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music. Oxford University Press.
Other References		• Ellingson, Ter. 1992 ‘Theory and Method: Transcription’, and Theory and Method: Notation, Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. [Ed. by] Helen Myers. The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music. • Tenzer, Michael and John Roeder [ed.]. 2011. Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music. Oxford University Press. • England, Nicholas, and Charles Seeger, Robert Garfiaz, Mieczyslaw Kolinski, George List, Willard Rhodes. 1964. “Symposium on Transcription and Analysis: A Hukwe Song with Musical Bow”, Ethnomusicology, 8(3): 223-277. • Saygun, Ahmed Adnan and Laslo Vikar [Ed.]. 1976. Bela Bartok’s Folk Music Research in Turkey, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest. • Tura, Yalçın. 2001. Musikiyi Harflerle Tesbit ve İcra İlminin Kitabı [2 cilt], Yapı Kredi Yayınları. • Cook, Nicolas. 1992. A Guide to Musical Analysis, Oxford University Press. • Beckless Wilson, Rachel. 2008. Music Theory and Analysis, [in] Introduction to Music Studies, [Ed. by] J.P.E. Harper-Scott and Jim Samson, Cambridge University Press. • Meredith, David [Ed.]. 2016. Computational Music Analysis, Springer International Publishing. • Abraham, Otto and Erich M. von Hornbostel. 1994 [org. 1909-1910]. “Suggested Methods for the Transcription of Exotic Music” [Trans. from German by George and Eve List], Ethnomusicology, 38(3):425-456.

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