COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TURKISH FOLK MUSIC: REGIONAL AND LOCAL PRACTICES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBS 4006 TURKISH FOLK MUSIC: REGIONAL AND LOCAL PRACTICES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Music Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LEVENT ERGUN

Offered to

Music Sciences
Musicology

Course Objective

This course aims to recognize the cultural diversity of Anatolia through ethnic music and culture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define Alevism and Alevi music
2   Explain musical practices of Abdals and Tahtadjis
3   Distinguish genres and vocalizing practices in Alevi music
4   Identify Yoruks and their music
5   Identify Lazs and their music
6   Identify Assyrians and their music.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Alevi music
2 Types of Alevi music
3 Tahtadjis and their music
4 Abdals
5 Master Abdal musicians and examples
6 Yoruks
7 Instruments and genres in Yoruk music
8 Socio-cultural memory and Yoruk music
9 Pratics of throat playing in Yoruk music
10 Gender and Yoruk music
11 Lazs and their music
12 Kurdish music and tradition of dengbejism
13 Assyrians and their music.
14 Mid-term exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Ergun, Levent (2004) Yörüklerde Müzik ve Boğaz Çalma, DEÜ; GSE, Müzik Bilimleri Ana Bilim Dalı, Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi
Additional Sources:
Erol, Ayhan (2009) Müzik Üzerine Düşünmek, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları.
Complementary Materials:
Audio and visual records.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instructor will explain the tradition of music in Anatolia considering non-musical influencers via audio and visual records. Students will directed to understand the cultural diversity of Anatolia.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 ATT ATTENDANCE
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + ATT * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + ATT * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams:
It targerts to measure whether students have achieved the knowledge based competences defined in learning outcomes.
Assignment/presentation:
It depends on the quality of analysis of the data collected by student at the beginning of the semester with the literature determination, observations and interviews on the subject of assignment given by the tutorial or selected by her/his choice. The student is expected to reflect the characteristics of assignment topics conveyed by tutorial within the course in her/his assignment. The oral presentation of the project assignment, which the student will deliver in writing at the end of the semester, is evaluated in terms of the subject being clearly understood, the quality of written narrative principles such as format and spelling rules.
Attendance in the course:
The score to be obtained from the student s attendance depend on a) attendance status of the course, b) the quality of the students answers to the questions asked by the instructor during the course, c) the quality of the technical, formal and oral narration in the presentation and (d) the contrubition of the student to the creation of the positive learning environment.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 of attendance is obligatory.
2. Every kind of plagiarism will be ended with disciplinary punishment.
3. Not attending the class will not be counted as a valid excuse for delivering the term paper after deadline.
4. Assignments delivered after deadline will not be accepted.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Phone: 232 301 68 51
E-mail: levent.ergun@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday: 13.30-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 5 2 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 70

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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