Nuh Fikri SOYSAL, Professor of Music, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Sate Conservatory, Taşlıçiftlik Yerleşkesi, PK:60100 Tokat Turkey.
He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rast Musicology Journal, which was founded in 2013 and makes publications on Turkish music, indexed in SCOPUS Q3 and RILM. So far, He has written articles in peer-reviewed journals, symposium papers, and books published and made an artistic single album. Considering that learning is lifelong, He believes He is still at the beginning of his profession.
He conducts research on the music of Turkish-speaking countries that are included in the music culture of the East and Islamic civilization and covers the Balkans, Anatolia, and Caucasus regions. He did his Ph.D. research on the concept of mugham within the framework of Rast mugham in Azerbaijan. He conducted his master's thesis on folk songs about historical events in Rumelia.
In 2011, He received a $12,340 research grant from YÖK (Council of Higher Education) to investigate Azerbaijani mughams. In 2012 and 2013, He won the academic performance award from Dicle University.
His teaching philosophy
He is sensitive to students' backgrounds and goals in his courses and seminars. He aims to establish a connection with their personal experiences. He believes in a flexible teaching style. Every student can develop the ability to listen to and understand a piece of music, regardless of background. Every student is unique, and there is no one-size-fits-all teaching style.
Some of his publications related the following topics:
• The Literary Meanings of Turkish folk music,
• An analysis of the art aspect of Turkish folk music,
• Education of unmetered folk songs is one of the issues waiting to be developed methodologically in Turkish music,
• Notation of gazel in art music, kaside in religious music, and unmetered folk songs in folk music,
• Recommendations of Ahmedoğlu Şükrullah Çelebi, one of the music theorists of the 15th century, on voice health in the thirtieth and thirty-first chapters of his work "Edvar-ı Musiki",
• Determining the factors affecting the music preference,
• Early childhood music education
• Course books for Turkish folk music solfeggio lessons and publications on many other subjects.
• The single entitled "Kalktı Göç Eyledi Avşar Elleri," an artistic performance album, was released on digital music markets.
Research Summary Page:
YÖK Academic Research Page
Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University
An artistic single album (2020), Kalktı göç eyledi Avşar elleri, https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sqKTCy7oOOdy1Xt1VI5ZD
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpn70jc9vZQGdKquqhCvwcw