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We are happy and proud to have been editors in this second issue of the Rast Musicology Journal. This edition is dedicated to Gazi University’s Turkish Music State Conservatory, which fulfills a significant gap as it sets a model for this study and other similar studies and aims to support Turkish music and culture in the field of musicology in Turkey. Before sharing the studies of researchers who have demonstrated a significant commitment to musicology in this issue, we deem it necessary to thank our founder and manager of the Turkish Music State Conservatory at Gazi University, Professor Dr. Gülçin YAHYA KAÇAR, who provided full support and help during this process; the founding editor of Rast Musicology Journal, Assistant Professor Dr. Fikri SOYSAL, who encouraged us to conduct this study; and our distinguished instructors, who accepted our request for arbitration; members of the editorial board who allocated their precious time for this study; and our authors who contributed to this journal with their significant studies in the field of musicology. In his article titled, A Research on Audio Systems of Qanun, Serkan Günalçin, a teaching assistant for the Turkish Music State Conservatory at Gazi University, who conducts research on audio systems in Qanun and Turkish Music, investigated the compatibility of the fret range of qanun with audio systems of Turkish music. According to this system, he investigated the frets in Turkish music and the success level in playing modes of Turkish music forall available rhythms. This article provides a meaningful contribution to the musicology literature sincethere is few studies in this area. In his article titled, Research on Mevlana and Mevleviyeh in Konya Folk Songs, Dr. Attila Özdek, from the Turkish Music State Conservatory at Selçuk University, investigated Konya folk music. The article discusses characteristics in Turkish folk music that illustrate a influence of Mevlana; a sufi and thinker who deeply affected the culture of his time and thus, affected music genres and local music. The author investigates Konya folk songs in terms of rhythm, structure, subject and words and explores the relationship between Konya folk songs and Mevlana/Mevleviyah. Music historian Erhan Özden wrote an article about Ottoman Musical Schools and he evaluates these schools in light of archival documents. He provides a discussion about the musical education in the Darülbedâyi Theatre and Musical School. Music history researchers Dr. Erhan Özden and Dr. Hikmet Toker provide a follow-up to their previous study about prominent musical education institutions in the Ottoman Empire. They offer an exploration of Enderûn, Mehterhâne, Mevlevîhâneler, Musikâ-i Hümâyûn, Dârülelhan, and Dârülbedayi, communities that provided musical education and schools that gave Turkish education and had musical education in their curricula after the declaration of the rescript of Gülhane. Assistant Professor Dr. Togay Şenalp, a teaching assistant in the Performing Arts Department of Fine Arts at Muğla University, analyzed oral history interviews conducted with 40 Turkish Music artists between and in his article titled, What should be our National Route in Music? Solution Suggestions Through an Oral History Project. He suggests the connective term, "Modal Music" to define Turkish music. This term can be divided into two—folk music and art music. Dr. Şenalp recommends a method to synthesize the West-East paradigm in order to protects our modal language and manner In his article titled, Musicologist Mahmut Ragıp Gazimihâl's discusses articles about Music in Konya that were published in Ekekon Newspaper, Assistant Professor Dr. Timor Vural, from the Turkish Music Conservatory at Niğde University, introduces the articles of Gazimiâl that have significant contributions such as book, article, collection etc. to musicology in Turkey. These articles were published in the abovementioned newspaper in and , but were not mentioned in the science world. In addition, the author compares the musical movement expressed by Gazmihâl in those years and today's music life in Konya that presents the 65 year-old tradition of Konya music. In his article titled, Harmonic and Terminological Approaches in Harmony Books of Hüseyin Saadettin Arel, Assistant Professor Dr. Gökhan Yalın, a lecturer in the Music Sciences Department at Kırıkkale University, reveals harmonic and terminological approaches in H. SadettinArel's unknown studies titled, "Theoretic and Practical Lessons for Beginners" (Mübtediler için Nazari ve Ameli Ahenk About Fall Issue Cover Design: Fatih Akçay (MarAjans, email: [email protected]) and Fikri Soysal Website, Registration of DOIs, Print Editor, Founder and Editor-In-Chief: Fikri Soysal Contributing Editors: Sevilay Çınar and Burçin Uçaner Proofreading Services: [email protected] Submitted papers are examined with respect to originality, concept, academic quality, methodology, social benefit, evidence and intellectual framework By Reviewers Triple-blind Journal Rast Musicology Journal is published two times for a year (Spring and Fall) Visit Website: seafoodplus.info Diyarbakır, Turkey Copyright © by Rast Musicology Journal Publication Date November