MHST 548 Notation/Performance: Two Eastern Traditions
This course is about the coding of aural and cultural experience as revealed in the relationship between notation and performance. The main focus of the course will be the variety of notations introduced to Ottoman classical music during the 17th and 18th centuries as well as Greek Orthodox (aka Byzantine) neumatic notation. Students will learn to transcribe this music, while being introduced to Byzantine and Ottoman history, music making, and notational practice in the 17th -19th centuries. They will gain a basic understanding of echos / makam (mode) and usul (rhythmic cycles) and tuning and temperament, especially as they relate to developments in Europe during the Renaissance and Baroque.