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Using Turkish Aksak Rhythms To Teach Asymmetrical Meter

Author(s) -

Adem Merter Birson

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

engaging students essays in music pedagogy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2689-2871

DOI - 10.18061/es.v8i0.7745

Subject(s) - rhythm , turkish , musical , normative , subject (documents) , metre , class (philosophy) , psychology , computer science , speech recognition , acoustics , visual arts , linguistics , art , artificial intelligence , world wide web , physics , political science , philosophy , astronomy , law

Ear training courses often treat the topic of asymmetrical meter (5, 7 beats) as uncommon in Western music. This causes musical examples in the subject to be less idiomatic than those which deal with more "normative" meters, in 2, 3, and 4 beats. Turkish music, on the other hand, often organizes beats asymmetrically, a feature known as aksak or "limping." This paper discusses strategies for incorporating both Turkish musical examples and pedagogical practices in aural skills class in order to teach the topic of asymmetrical meter.

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