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Dr. Jacob Olley

Research associate

Fields of interest

  • Ottoman music and cultural history
  • History of Ottoman notation systems
  • Armenian and Armeno-Turkish music sources
  • Music and global history in the long nineteenth century

 

Other Links:

Academia.edu profile: https://uni-m.academia.edu/JacobOlley

  • Vita

    Jacob Olley studied ethnomusicology (BA and MMus) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (2007–2011). He completed an AHRC-funded PhD at King’s College London in 2017 under the supervision of Martin Stokes. His thesis is entitled “Writing Music in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul: Ottoman Armenians and the Invention of Hampartsum Notation,” and approaches the use of notation as an aspect of the intellectual, social, and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. Jacob Olley has taught at SOAS, King’s College London, and the University of Kassel. He joined Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae in 2015, and within the framework of the project focused on the edition of Armeno-Turkish music manuscripts until his departure in 2020.

  • Publikationen/Publications/Yayınlar

    (Selected Publications)

    • “Remembering Armenian Music in Bolis: Komitas Vardapet in Transcultural Perspective.” Memory Studies 12, no. 5 (2019) (Special Issue: Ottoman Transcultural Memories, edited by Gabriel Koureas, Jay Prosser, Colette Wilson, and Leslie Hakim-Dowek): 547–64.
    • With Anna Plaksin. “Creating an Encoding Workflow for a Critical Edition of Ottoman Music Manuscripts: Challenges and Solutions.” In Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2015, 2016 and 2017, edited by Giuliani Di Bacco, Johannes Kepper and Perry D. Roland, 119–30. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15463/music-1.
    • “Some Notes on the Manuscripts in Hampartsum Notation in the Hüseyin Sâdettin Arel Archive.” In 2017 Arel Sempozyumu Bildirileri: Uluslararası Hüseyin Sadettin Arel ve Türk Müziği Sempozyumu, 13–14 Aralık 2017, edited by Fikret Turan, Emine Temel and Emre Kurban, 351–91. Istanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, 2018.
    • “Towards a New Theory of Historical Change in the Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire.” In Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright, edited by Rachel Harris and Martin Stokes, 22–41. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
    • Ed. with Zeynep Helvacı and Ralf Martin Jäger. Rhythmic Cycles and Structures in the Art Music of the Middle East. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2017.
    • “Rhythmic Augmentation and the Transformation of the Ottoman Peşrev, 18th–19th Centuries.” In Rhythmic Cycles and Structures in the Art Music of the Middle East, edited by Zeynep Helvacı, Jacob Olley and Ralf Martin Jäger, 179–88. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2017.
    • “Towards a Global History of Music? Postcolonial Studies and Historical Musicology.” Ethnomusicology Review (Sounding Board, 2016). https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/towards-global-history-music-postcolonial-studies-and-historical-musicology.
    • “Modal Diversity in Early Ottoman Music: The Case of Makâm Sabâ.” Near Eastern Musicology Online 1 (2012): 39–54.