Online Music Therapy Course

• The ancient Greek tone systems that prepared Turkish Makam Therapy Music
  • The importance of sound in Turkish makam therapy
  • Basic Pythagorean intervals
  • The origins and variations of Turkish comma
  • The origins of Turkish tetrachord and pentachord
  • Diatonic, chronic and enharmonic scales in ancient Greek and makam music
  • Greek modes and emotions
• Melody patterns in Gregorian chant and makam music
  • Historical development of Western music after the Ancient times
  • Hexachord and relative solmisation
  • Hexachord in makam music as extended melody units
  • Gregorian modes and emotions
  • Stereotyped motives in Gregorian chant and makam music
  • Analysis of melodic progressions in Dorian melodies and Hüseyni improvisations by Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç
• al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and al-Urmawi
  • al-Kindi: the ancient foundation of makam therapy
  • al-Farabi: the ethnomusicological foundation of makam therapy
  • Ibn Sina: the medical foundation of makam therapy
  • al-Urmawi: the tonal foundation of makam therapy
• The historical medico-musical sources of Turkish Makam Therapy
  • The basic principles of Ibn Sina Medicine
  • Diagnosis of Ibn Sina Medicine and its application in makam therapy
  • Combining Ibn Sina therapy with makam therapy
  • Anonymous Gotha: different makams cure different diseases
  • Haşim Bey Mecmuası: a last Ottoman echo of medieval music therapy
• The basics of makam music – Tones, notation, intervals, accidentals, pitch names, tuning
  • A walk to the makams by travelling from Western to Eastern Music
  • Notation of modern Turkish makam music
  • Turkish whole tones and halftones
  • Turkish pitch names
  • Tunings – low and high accord, tone in modern Turkish music and classic music
• The Principles of Makam Design
  • Scale types and functional tones
  • Functional tones
  • Melodic directions and extensions
  • Melodic progression, stereotyped motives, relation to other makams and modulations
• Introduction to Old Oriental music therapy
  • Lesson 1
  • Lesson 2