4 Makams, 24 Studies for The Visually İmpaired
Project no. 23901 · Status: Kapanmış · 2022
Summary
<p>It is a known fact that visually impaired individuals lack material in the field of music education. People with visual impairments, who frequently express the scarcity of Braille alphabet braille notes and think that this gap must be filled insistently, are waiting for the problem of lack of materials to be solved. The scope of this project includes specially created educational studies of the traditional Turkish classical music genre, which was started in 2020 by EUDTMK faculty member Assoc. Dr. The book titled "4 Maqam 24 Etudes", written by Özgen Küçükgökçe and published by Ege University Printing House, is written in digital environment using Braille notation and published on the Official Website of Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory and made available to the relevant people. The maqam etudes created in four maqams selected from traditional Turkish classical music maqams are designed as special training etudes to improve individuals' verbal sight-reading skills. This project, which was prepared with the aim of improving the deciphering of visually impaired people by combining word sequences called chants with modal melodic structures, has a unique value as it is a first in its field. As a result of the project, people who are interested in music as amateur or professional, as well as conservatories, public education centers, etc. Improving the sight-reading skills of visually impaired people who receive music education in institutions and taking their music education quality to the next level are among the expected results.</p><p>Key Words: Traditional Turkish Music, Braille Notation, The Book of 4 Maqam 24 Etude</p>