Zehra Tülin Degirmenci

EDUCATION :
Ph.D. 2023 Faculty of Art and Design, Dept. of Music and Performing Arts, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Turan SAĞER
Dissertation: A Sociocultural Analysis of the Hamparsum Music Notation as a Sign System
M.A. 1997 Musicology– Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
B.A. 1985 Musicology– Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :
Lecturer, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey September 2021 – Present
Lecturer, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, Istanbul, Turkey September 2009 – May 2019
Research Center Director, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey September 1996 – July 2006
Lecturer, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey March 1992 – July 2006
Lecturer, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey March 1986 – March 1992

RECENT ACADEMIC AWARDS :

January 15, 2023 First Place, Jury Special Awards Category, 2nd Rast Musicology Journal Music Awards.

SELECTED TALKS :
• A Woman Composer in The Hamparsum Manuscripts “Reftâr”, Harvard University CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series Presents Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers, 26 May 2018.
• Music Tradition in Folklore of the Teke Region, Yeditepe University, Anthropology Department, 10 March 2007.
• Music Research Based on Fieldwork / Teke Region Strings Instruments, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Music Department, 29 December 2004.
• Teke Region String Instruments, Music and Performing Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Yildiz Technical University, Ethnomusicology Seminars, 30 April 2004.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :
Books
• Akgün, N. & Degirmenci, Z. T. (2000). Isparta Folklore I. Isparta: Süleyman Demirel University Publications no:7.
• Akgün, N., Koruk, C., & Degirmenci, Z. T. (2010). Isparta Folklore III. Isparta: Süleyman Demirel University Publications, no: 92.
Articles Published in Journals in The International Science Citation Index (SCI)
• Degirmenci, Z.T. & Sager, T. (2022). A Comparison of Musical Content in Hamparsum Music Manuscripts Through Documents on Mevlevi Music. Rast Musicology Journal, 10 (4), 579-597.
• Kutlay, E. & Degirmenci. Z. T. (2022). Evaluation of the Transition Process to Modernization from Sultan Selim III’s Era to Sultan Mahmud II’s through the Representation of Hamparsum. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, 4 (6), 23-52.
• Degirmenci, Z. T. (2021). Vestiges of Reftar in Historical Music Notations. Journal of Human Sciences, 18 (2), 143–158.
Symposia
• Degirmenci, Z. T. & Sager, T. (2022). A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Hamparsum Music Notation and the Mevlevihane from a Perspective of Memory, Place, and Music. The 12th International Hisarlı Ahmet Symposium 09-12 / June 2022.
• Degirmenci, Z. T., “A Music Tradition Forgotten in Hamparsum Manuscripts, Takım”, Ottoman Istanbul International Symposium IV, May 11-13, 2018, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Degirmenci, Z. T., “Keepers of Ottoman Istanbul Musical Culture: Albert Bobowski, Demetrius Cantemir, Hampartzum Limonciyan”, Ottoman Istanbul International Symposium II, May 27-29, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Degirmenci, Z. T., “The Effects of Hamparsum Writing System on Music Education in Scientific Perspective from Theory to Practice”, Interaction of Music, Theater and Literature with Science Symposium, May 29-30, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Degirmenci, Z. T., “An Overview of Saygun’s Music Folklore Field Research and Analysis Studies and the Fifteenth Notebook”, IV. Musicology Symposium, March 9-10, 2007, Bursa, Turkey.
• Degirmenci, Z. T., “Kabak Kemane Making in Burdur and Its Place in the National Market”, I. Burdur Symposium, November 16-19, 2005, Burdur, Turkey.
• Degirmenci, Z.T., “The Place and Importance of Music Culture in Eğirdir Folklore”, I. Egirdir Symposium, August 31 - September 1, 2001, Egirdir, Turkey.

PROJECTS MANAGED :
• Determination of Teke Region Folk Music Instruments and Instrument Makers, Creation of a Museum of Teke Region Instruments. Süleyman Demirel University Project - 114, 2000.
• Ethnomusicological Examination of the Kabak Kemane, a Folk Music Instrument of the Teke Region, Archiving the Data on Audio-Video CD and Developing the Existing Instrument Documentation. Süleyman Demirel University Project – 366, 2001.
• Determination of Historical Development and Formal Change of Stringed Instruments Used in Teke Folklore, Preparation of Data as Production on Audio-Video CD. Süleyman Demirel University Project – 499, 2002.
• Determination of Music in Isparta Folklore Wedding Tradition, Archiving of Data on Audio-Video CDs. Süleyman Demirel University Project – 490, 2002.
• From the Republic to the Present Music Folklore Archives and Field Research, Süleyman Demirel University 2003 – 2004.

ADVISING :
• İkbal Efe Süzen, Undergraduate Thesis, Yıldız Technical University, Music and Performing Arts, 2022. “Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Classical Music: The Dramatic Symphony of Romeo & Juliet.”
• İhsan Kaan Erdinç, Undergraduate Thesis, Yıldız Technical University, Music and Performing Arts, 2022. “Detection and Analysis of Micro-timing Properties in Arguvan Region Kırklar Semahı Practice.”
• H. Gökçe İşler, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2015. “The Examination and the Translation into today’s Musical Notation System by Classification of the Works, in Kemal Batanay Music Archive at the Centre for Islamic Studies Recorded with Hamparsum Music Notation.”
• Emir Murat Küçük, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2015. “The Examination of Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi’s Composition in Peshrev and Saz Semai from Inscribed in Hamparsum Manuscripts Located in Istanbul University Rare Books Library and their Interpretation to the Notation Used Today.”
• Emre Karabey, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2015. “Investigation About Institutionalization Process of Traditional Turkish Music Education from 1950 to Present in Turkey.”
• Mine Yener, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2015. “Transcribing and Examination of Y.207/5 no Hamparsum Manuscripts Found in the Rare Books Library in the Istanbul University into today’s Notation System.”
• Cihan May, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2015. “Comparative Analysis and Musical Parsing of the Opera ‘Köroğlu’ by Ahmed Adnan Saygun in Terms of Turkish mythology and Turkish Literature.”
• Yadigar Sude Altay, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2014. “Women in Identity and Folk Culture Women’s Musical Styles of Expression.”
• Funda Potuoğlu, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2014. “The place of associations in Turkish Music education in historical process.”
• Soner Altıkulaç, Master of Arts, Haliç University Conservatory, Department of Turkish Music, 2013. “Analysis and comparison of 'kırık havalar' - rhythmic folk songs - sang in Arguvan, Hekimhan and Polat districts by 'taşıl bezekleme' – ornament note– method.”

Full list of publications available on Google Scholar.

RESEARCH INTERESTS :
In professional life, I define myself as a music educator and musicologist. As a music lecturer, I have taught at several universities since 1986. As a musicologist, I have been working in the field of music paleography, one of the sub-branches of historical musicology, for the last twenty years. My research is currently focused on discovering and analyzing historical documents of a neumatic music notation called Hamparsum.