Music Graduate Program - Master Degree

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Searching For Lullabies: Remembering The Past Through Lullabies In The Soundscape Of Eastern Black Sea

(Institute of Social Sciences, 2019) Başlantı, Suna ; Tanır, Emine Şirin Özgün ; 569185 ; Music ; Müzik

The aim of this study is to understand how we encode those initial sounds in terms of examining their reflections into our music perception; to clarify the borders between music and sound if it exists; to investigate the usage of lyrics in order to trace their place in the remembrance of the melody; to understand the role of mothers, women, both in emotional and melodic creation and transmission; to emphasize the importance of sensual perception in memory revival; and finally to contribute to the epistemology of sound. So, the ultimate question in this thesis is: what is the function of the sounds in our childhood in terms of memory and music perception? This thesis is not a totally cognitive study that seeks to explain the brain's functions against the elements of music or sound; instead, it tries to create correlations between our essential cognitive functions, our cultures and our memories that mostly affect who we are. So the main methodology of this thesis is supposed to be holistic by synthesizing different disciplines and different approaches, that is, incorporating the biological and experimental knowledge into the sensory and autobiographical ethnography.