Rast Music Awards
Rast Music Awards is dedicated to promoting music researchers, performers, and artists on the rise and established high-quality music standards while supporting charitable causes through the Rast Musicology Journal Academic Board. This award was established by the Young Wise Publishing Ltd at London, UK, music publishers, in 2021, and is given for the publication of a work by gifted scientists, artists, performers, and composers.
Rast Musicology Journal Academic Board is as an honor board of the academic world-leading scientists, artists, composers, and writers. The Board’s 10 members are determined for one year and pay no dues. In addition to electing new members as vacancies occur, the Board seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Music by administering over 27 awards and prizes.
Rast Music Awards are announced once a year. Candidates submit their applications, awards are distributed as a result of the evaluation by the award committee.
Candidates apply to the Rast Music Awards in two main categories: art and science. Rast Music Awards’ main and sub-categories are as follows.
Conditions of the Art Awards Category
- Candidate works must be published between 1 January and 31 October 2023 of this year, in a printed album or in social media.
- Recordings are expected to be of high quality and intelligible.
- The classical style and attitude characteristics of each category should be reflected in the composition/performing.
- For vocal and instrumental performances, it is expected to be one of the works in the repertoire of the relevant category or composed in that style, which requires technically high performance skills.
- Distortion of the words or pitches of the works other than the truth will not be accepted.
Conditions of the Science Awards Category
Scientific publication applications should be in the right research design, have a high impact factor in the field, and should be from musicology subjects.
| Main Category: Art Awards | Main Category: Science Awards |
| Sub-categories: Turkish Art Music
Turkish Art Music – Vocal Turkish Art Music – Plectrum Instruments Turkish Art Music – Wind Instruments Turkish Art Music – Percussion Instruments Turkish Art Music – String Instruments Sub-categories: Turkish Folk Music Turkish Folk Music – Vocal Turkish Folk Music – Plectrum Instruments Turkish Folk Music – Wind Instruments Turkish Folk Music – Percussion Instruments Turkish Folk Music – String Instruments Sub-categories: Turkish Religious Music Turkish Religious Music -Vocal Sub-categories: Western Music Western Music – Vocal Western Music – Plectrum Instruments Western Music – Wind Instruments Western Music – Percussion Instruments Western Music – String Instruments Western Music – Piano Western Music – Guitar Sub-category: Turkish Music Composer Turkish Music Composer: Turkish Art Music Composition Turkish Music Composer: Turkish Folk Music Composition Turkish Music Composer: Turkish Religious Music Composition
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Sub-category: Thesis
Thesis– Turkish Music Research Thesis– Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Thesis– Western Music Research Sub-category: Article Article – Most cited Article Article – Jury Special Awards Article – Interdisciplinary Music Research Sub-category: Book Book- Turkish Music Research Book- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Book- Western Music Research Book- Musicology Sub-category: Research Project Book- Turkish Music Research Book- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Book- Western Music Research Book- Musicology Sub-category: Proceedings Proceedings – Turkish Music Research Proceedings – Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Proceedings – Western Music Research Proceedings – Musicology Sub-category: Novelty Novelty- Instrument Design Novelty-Patent Novelty-Invention Sub-Category: Rast Musicology Journal Publication Awards The most cited article award (Annualy) |
Rast Awards Committee Chair
Please submit your nominated performance link [wpabstracts event_id=4] and short information about it.
Organization Committee
Rast Music Awards -2024
Western Music – Piano
Tayfun İlhan
Turkish Music Composer: Turkish Folk Music Composition
Prof. Dr. Gülçin Yahya-Kaçar
Thesis– Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research
Aynur Gasimova, PhD thesis: “The features of the musical language in the creative work of composer Nariman Mammadov”
Article – Most Quality/Cited Article
Fırat Altun- Türk makam müziğinde cinsler arasındaki modülasyonlarda ritmik cümlelerin işlevi: Hüseyni ve Beyati makamlarında yapısal ve bilişsel analiz- The function of rhythmic phrases in modulations between makam jins: structural and cognitive analysis in Hüseyni and Beyati makams in Turkish Makam Music
Article – Jury Special Awards
Hasan Said Tortop- Müzik araştırmaları türlerine bir yenilik: müzik performans makalesi- An innovation in genres of music studies: music performance article
Article – Interdisciplinary Music Research
Beste Öngüç- A study on somatic expressions in Arabesque music as an elements of popular culture in Turkiye: Arabesque dance design
Book- Turkish Music Research
Melih Duygulu-Halk Müziği Sözlüğü
Book- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research
Joanna Tarassenko-The Spirit of Polyphony: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Musical Pneumatology
Book- Western Music Research
Andrew Kania -Philosophy of Western MusicA Contemporary Introduction
Book- Musicology
Nana Sharikadze. An Introduction to Georgian Art Music: Sense-Making through Music. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Book- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research
Paul Griffiths. A Concise History of Western Music.
Proceedings – Turkish Music Research
Tunahan Alan and Mehmet Alan “An Analytical Approach to the Fret System of the Bağlama Instrument”
Proceedings – Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research
Zehra Badalova- Investigation of Sufi Music in Azerbaijan: Problems and Suggestions`
Proceedings – Musicology
Fırat Altun- Music Emotion Induction: Music Theoretical Foundations”
Proceedings –Music Education
Maria Bellmunt i Borràs and Sandra Soler Campo– The importance of instrumental practice in children’s cognitive development
Novelty- Instrument Design
Zafer Güzey-Viola Damore
Rast Musicology Journal Publication Awards-
The most quality/cited article award
Effects of hollowed neck designs on sound radiation and loudness of baglama
Yunis Şahinkayası, Emir Değirmenli , Hamide Şahinkayası , Ünal Öztorun
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1st Music Awards (December 2021) List
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Hakan Emre Ziyagil nominated by the committee for your work “Silent Scream” in the Techno Music category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Techno Music category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
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Seda Tüfekcioğlu nominated by the committee for your work “Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’nin Mevaidü’n-Nefais adlı eserinde Türk çalgıları” in the Most Read Article Category (at the RMJ). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Most Read Article Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
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Pooyan Azadeh nominated by the committee for your work “Zange Shahi” in the Western Music – Piano Category (at the IRMC). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Western Music – Piano Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
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Rumiana Margaritova nominated by the committee for your work “A Virtual Tour in the Alevi Ritual Music and Semahlar from the Eastern Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria” in the Research Project- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Research Project- Eastern and Islamic Civilization Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
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Scott Smith nominated by the committee for your work “The Internationalization of Piano Education: Piano Literature and Pedagogy from Countries Around the World: “The Intercultural Piano Education Project” from The Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth” in the Research Project- Western Music Research Category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Research Project- Western Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Committee.
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Panya Roongruang nominated by the committee for your work “Creative Research in Ethnomusicology: PhD Curriculum at Babgkoktonburi University in Thailand” in the Proceedings – Musicology Category. Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Proceedings – Musicology Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
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Johee LEE and Inho LEE nominated by the committee for your work “A study on film score applying the Neo-Riemannian theory: focusing on Bernard Herrmann’s mysterious island” in the Article – Interdisciplinary Music Research (at the RMJ). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Article – Interdisciplinary Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
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Fidan İldırımlı nominated by the committee for your work “Variety and melodic features in based on the mode of Shushter and Humayun rangs” in the Proceedings – Turkish Music Research Category (at the IRMC). Congratulations on receiving the “First Prize” in the Proceedings – Turkish Music Research Category of the 1st Rast Music Awards (December 2021) as a result of the evaluation of the Rast Music Awards Committee.
Rast Music Awards Committee