Open AccessUsing Turkish Aksak Rhythms To Teach Asymmetrical Meter
Author(s) -
Adem Merter Birson
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
engaging students
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.