For Academics

All of board members of ISIPAE

All of board members of ISIPAE

All of board members of ISIPAE

11:20-11:45
``Transhumanism, renewed awareness, and new compositional approaches in multimedia music (on the example of Georgian music)``
Gvantsa Ghvinjilia
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/NcGcupL1z7g

11:45-12:10
``When Orpheus looks back from the opera stage``
Evrim Şahinkaya Kaplancık

12:10-12:35
``METU (Middle East Technical University) Contemporary Dance Workshop (Ensemble)– 1986-89 and the concept of “Contemporary Dance``
Handan Ergiydiren Doğan

12:35-13:05
``Discovering Francisco Pulgar-Vidal and his piano works``
Po Sim Head
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AByjWmlPZw&t=87s

13:05-13:35
``The embodied actor in contemporary theatre; psychophysical acting practices``
Güneş Kozal
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZoT-TrFoFs

A brief overiew will be given of the history, use and importance of Music in ancient pharaonic and later Coptic Egypt. Music was an important part of the ancient Egyptian religious and social culture, revealing a highly civilized nation of the Orient, seeking to reach the divine through melodic sounds. Although Music existed in Pre-Historic Egypt, the evidence for it becomes secure only during the Dynastic Period (after 3100 BC). Ancient Egyptians did not notate their Music before the Helleno-Roman Era, thus any attempt to reconstruct pharaonic Music remains speculative (see e.g.: the interesting work by Ali Jihad Racy). We are actually based on representational evidence that provide only a general idea of the sound of Egyptian Music. Egyptian musical modes were based on a scale that is highly reminiscent of the European Music, as it has been proven by the computerized sound-analysis of ancient Egyptian flutes. Ancient Egyptian Music was probably based on a minor pentatonic scale of five full tones without halftones. This fact may be inferred from the positions of the holes on flutes. During the New Kingdom, when foreign conquests brought Egyptians in closer contact with several Asiatic nations and their Music, many new instruments (and with them new sound-qualities) were introduced, and Egyptians also encountered the scales prevailing in the Near East. However, they seem to have preferred keeping their traditional tonality, although some Musicologists think that they begun to use a heptatonic scale. All major categories of musical instruments (Percussion, Wind and Stringed) were used. Music was considered as a means to adore the divinities and help in prayers and in chanting hymns; it was thought of as a proof of the cosmic inherent Harmony. Music was an integral part of religious worship in ancient Egypt. Musicians, singers and dancers occupied a variety of positions in Egyptian society and religion, being praised for their art and skills. The Copts, Christian descendents of the ancient Egyptians, kept one of the oldest musical heritages in the World sung for more than 2000 years in the Coptic Church up to our age. Nowadays only few hundreds of deacons and Egyptian (Coptic) people in the whole globe can sing those beautiful tunes in the Coptic Language (which is the last stage of evolution of the ancient Egyptian language). Kurt Sachs studied the Music and Poetry of ancient Egypt. Hans Hickmann took a deeper focus on Music in ancient Egypt. He studied and analyzed all available engravings, inscriptions and instruments of ancient Egypt. Ernest Newlandsmith had no knowledge of this field, but his fate made him meet with Ragheb Moftah who invited him for 9 consecutive Winters in Egypt, where he transcribed in 16 Volumes all the inherited Coptic musical heritage. Recently, the important studies of Fathi Saleh and Mahmoud Effat, based also on Informatics, have shown the heptatonic texture of the ancient Egyptian musical scale, while Coptic Music, be it secular or religious, continues the rich ancient Egyptian tradition.

15:30-15:55
``A review on the effect of singing in children's choirs on cognitive, emotional and social development``
Zümra Azizoğlu and İlknur Özel Göncü
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs3VBGNUD80

15:55-16:10
The drama of Muslim countries on the stage of the Irevan Theater during the years of independence
Malahat Aghayeva
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEp0Se5Mhms

16:10-16:40
Deconstruction of a post-structuralist approach women Dengbejs and their narratives
Songül Çakmak