Anadolu Aleviliği ibadeti olan cem âyininde icra edilen deyiş formundaki eserleri müzikal açıdan incelediğimiz çalışma beş bölümden oluşmaktadır. Birinci bölüm; problem durumu, alt problemler, metodoloji, araştırma süreci, sınırlamalar, varsayımlar, evren-örneklem ve terminoloji…
“It Is Finished: A Tenebrae Cantata” focuses on the somber memorial of Good Friday. In seven movements, the piece travels from the scriptural Last Supper to the final death of Christ and subsequent conclusion of the dark day. In contrast to the uplifting Easter message, Tenebrae…
The present thesis examines spiritual madrigals based on Italian poetic paraphrases of Latin sacred texts printed in the Italian States between the late 1530s and 1630. 'Spiritual madrigal' is the term used to label madrigals setting texts with explicit religious or moral conten…
History is often a manufactured commodity; its specifications change at the behest of larger political narratives. There is a constant need for recognition that at any point in time, history exists on two different planes of understanding – one, as the historian’s version of eve…
In the early twentieth century, a religious and cultural renewal movement took hold in the Evangelical Church (Lutheran) in Germany. As a result, music from the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque period saw new popularity in the church. Upon winning his first church position…
This ethnographic study explores the ways in which religion impacts the lives of those who live and visit the Isle of Lewis, an island off the northwest coast of Scotland. The churches on the island are, predominantly, of conservative Presbyterian denominations; the island has o…