COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Musicology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELIF TEKIN GÜRGEN

Offered to

Musicology

Course Objective

During this course, the psychological effects of music which is not completely discovered yet will be discussed theoretically and methodologically. The aim of this course is to seek answers to the questions about musical preferences including which, how, where, when and whom with we prefer listen to music. And to discover the importance of music on daily life by investigating the studies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Deutsch, D. (Ed.). (2013). Psychology of music. Elsevier.
Gürgen, E. T. (2016). Musical preference and music education: Musical preferences of Turkish university students and their levels in genre identification. International Journal of Music Education, 34(4), 459-471.
Gürgen, E. T. (2016). Music Listening Situations and Musical Preference of the Students at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Everyday Life: A Case of Dokuz Eylul University. Journal of Higher Education & Science/Yüksekögretim ve Bilim Dergisi, 6(2).
Gürgen, E. T. (2016). Social and emotional function of music listening: Reasons for listening to music. Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 16(66), 229-242.
Grekow, J. (2018). From Content-based Music Emotion Recognition to Emotion Maps of Musical Pieces. Poland: Springer International Publishing.
Hallam, S., Cross, I., & Thaut, M. (Eds.). (2011). Oxford handbook of music psychology. Oxford University Press.
Harper-Scott, J. P. E., & Samson, J. (Eds.). (2009). An introduction to music studies. Cambridge University Press.
King, E., & Prior, H. M. (Eds.). (2016). Music and familiarity: listening, musicology and performance. Routledge.
Levitin, D. J. (2006). This is your brain on music: The science of a human obsession. New York: Penguin.
North, A. C., & Hargreaves, D. J. (2008). The social and applied psychology of music. NewYork: Oxford University Press.
Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2003). The do re mi's of everyday life: the structure and personality correlates of music preferences. Journal of personality and social psychology, 84(6), 1236.
Rentfrow, P. J., Goldberg, L. R., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). The structure of musical preferences: a five-factor model. Journal of personality and social psychology, 100(6), 1139.
Tan, S. L., Pfordresher, P., & Harré, R. (2010). Psychology of music: From sound to significance. Routledge.
Tekman, H. G. (2009). Music preferences as signs of who we are-Personality and social factors. In ESCOM 2009: 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
Manav, Ö., & Nemutlu, M. (2011). Müzikte alımlama. Istanbul:Pan Yayıncılık.
North, A. C., Hargreaves, D. J., & Hargreaves, J. J. (2004). Uses of music in everyday life. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 22 (1), 41-77.
North, A. C., Hargreaves, D. J., & O'Neil, S. A. (2000). The importance of music to adolescents. British Journal of Educational Psychology,70, 255- 272.

Other Materials Related to the Course:

Audio and vidieo materials

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Courses include the fundemental concepts of psychology of music and discussion of the methods and technics used in this field. Case reports and concept mapping methods will be used during the lessons.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Course assessment criteria are specified in the course assessment methods/plans.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attendance is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elif.tekin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

could be contacted at any time during course days

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes