COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RESEARCH METHODS IN COGNITIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZB 6021 RESEARCH METHODS IN COGNITIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Musicology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEHMET FIRAT KUTLUK

Offered to

Musicology

Course Objective

Abundance of the variables and criteria on musical preference is the basic reason of thousands of researches conducted in different disciplines. It is clear that efforts for defining the liking for music can never display explicit things. Abundance of criteria is a sufficient evidence; beauty of voice, beauty of tune, intonation, lyrics of song, the things that the music inspires in the person s memory, the things that it reminds, recording, instruments, mastery of performance, identity and status in social life of the performer, the environment in which music is listened, education, family, social environment or cultural identity. Conclusions obtained by researchers of emotion or cultural identity oriented studies conducted in such fields as musicology, psychology, psychiatry, and neurology are still disputable, which is an indicator of the strength of these factors, as well as their variability. The objective of this course is for students to be able to recognize the relation between music and brain with the technics such as fMRI and EEG.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   learn an interdislipcinary approach and methods to the study of cognitive ethnomusiciology.
2   recognize the perception and cognition.
3   read the literature on the elements such as pitch, sound and tune.
4   learn the cultural and theoritical aspects of musical preference
5   understanding the relationship between music and emotion.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Interdislipcinary music studies and problems.
2 Introduction to cognitive ethnomusicology (terms and theory).
3 Music Perception and brain localizations on music.
4 Musical preferences; cultural effects and theoritical aspect.
5 Is it possible to measure the musical pleasure
6 Music and emotion: neurocognitive approach I (fMRI studies).
7 Music and emotion: neurocognitive approach II (EEG and dti studies
8 The Psychology of Music: Introduction
9 Mid-term exam
10 Music preference on popular music: identity and emotion.
11 Reverberation time on fMRI study
12 Musician s brain: white matter
13 Music perception on professional musicians
14 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, presentations with audio and video.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1) LASKE, Otto E.; Artificial Intelligence and Music: A Cornerstone of Cognitive Musicology , Understanding Music With AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition, Eds.: Mira Balaban, Kemal Ebcioğlu and Otto Laske, The AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992.
2) PERETZ, Isabelle; Listen To The Brain: A Biological Perspective on Musical Emotions , Music and Emotion Theory and Research, Eds.: Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.
3) SHORE, Bradd; Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning, 1st ed, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
4) BOZKIR, Barbaros; Profesyonel Müzisyenlerde Müzik Algısı Farklılıkları; Bir fMRI Çalışması , Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü, 2009.
5) KARŞICI, Gülay; Müzik Beğenisinde Kültürel Etkenler, Bir fMRI Çalışması , Yayınlanmamış Doktora tezi, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü, 2007.
6)VERGILI, Suat; Yansışım Süresi Farklılıklarının Değerlendirilmesi; Bir fMRI Çalışması , Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü, 2008.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Fırat Kutluk
4129200

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 146

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.3
LO.455
LO.55