| Code |
Course Name |
Language |
Type |
| MUZ 445 |
Antique Musics of Near East |
Turkish |
Elective |
| Local Credits |
ECTS |
Theoretical |
Tutorial |
Laboratory |
| 3 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction |
| Prerequisites |
None |
| Class Restriction |
None |
| Course Description |
| Theories about the origins of music, the nature of music, music as culture. Music Archaeology, its scope and methods, related
disciplines: iconology, organology, ethnology, and acoustics. Prehistory and History phenomena and the chronology of the
Near East. Musical artifacts in prehistoric Mesopotamia, Levant, and Anatolia. Written sources on music in the region, the
earliest music notation system. Musical instruments, rituals, musicians according to the Assyrian and Babylonian musical
documents. Anatolia: musical instruments, rituals, musicians according to the Hittite musical documents. Egypt: depictions of
musical scenes belong to Pharaonic period, musical instruments yielded at excavations. Musical documents belong to Greco-
Roman period in the Near East. |
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