TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) have knowledge about marking music by written or orally.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	Nusic notation.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Basic Concepts: signs, sounds, letters, numbers, syllables, words; notation and transcription. 2nd Week Introduction to letter notation: fundamentals. 3rd Week Letter notation: Ancient Greek, Boethius, Pseudo-Odo and Dasian notations; diastematic-undiastematic notations. 4th Week Letter-Shape notations, neumas, Byzantion neumas. 5th Week Guido d'Arezzo and solmization; staff, notes, rests; mensural notation: tempus, prolatio, modus, longa and brevis, perfectum-imperfectum. 6th Week Guido d'Arezzo and solmization; some important developments up to 19th century notation. 7th Week Grafic notations; modern notation techniques (klavar, equitone, Braille, etc.); tablature notations; org and luth tablatures; mixed systems. 8th Week Midterm. 9th Week Electronic notations; oral notation and mnemonics. 10th Week Notation in Turkish Music; abcad system. 11th Week 17th Century: Ali Ufki notation; 18th Century: Nayi Osman Dede, Kantemiroğlu, Abdülbaki Nasır Dede and Hamparsum systems. 12th Week 19th Century: Western notation in Turkey; 20th Century: adopting wester notation to traditional Turkish music and inventing new signs. 13th Week Different Sysytems in World Music Cultures 1: India 14th Week Different Sysytems in World Music Cultures 2: China, Japan and Korea.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	1. Willi Apel, The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 1953, Cambridge. 2. Grove Music, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com 3. Gonca G. Tohumcu, Müziği Yazmak, Nota Yayıncılık, 2006, İstanbul 4. Adnan Atalay, http://www.adnanatalay.com/muzik yazilari.htm
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Discussion,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Total(%) 40 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 40 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 60 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 4 56 Preparation for Final exam 1 18 18 Course hours 14 2 28 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 13 13 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 2 2 Homework Meeting with advisor 1 1 1 Total Workload 120 Total Workload / 30 4 ECTS Credits of the Course 4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No