Course Information

Course Code:
Course Number:
Code Course Name Language Type
MUZ 446 World Verbal Cultures Turkish Compulsory
Local Credits ECTS Theoretical Tutorial Laboratory
2 3 2 0 0
Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction
Prerequisites None
Class Restriction None
Course Description
Vocal cultures from various parts of the world are taught in depth through a display of special vocal techniques and of different forms of polyphonic vocal music. Vocal Techniques: Calls, cries, clamours, voice and breath, spoken, declaimed, sung, compass and register, colours and timbres, disguised voices, ornamentation, singing in a musical instrument, imitation of instruments, harmonics. Vocal Polyphony: heterophony, echoes, overlapping voices, drones, ostinati, parallel motion, oblique motion, contrary motion, chords, counterpoint and combined techniques.