Zehra Tülin Degirmenci is a musicologist and has been working in the field of music paleography, one of the sub-branches of historical musicology, for the last twenty years. She received her BA and MA degrees in musicology from Dokuz Eylül University in 1985 and 1997. She established the Music Culture Research and Application Center at Süleyman Demirel University in 1996, where she conducted field studies to document the music culture of the Teke Region in Turkey and established an instrument museum with an audiovisual archive. She completed her PhD at Yildiz Technical University in 2023 with a dissertation titled “A Sociocultural Analysis of the Hamparsum Music Notation as a Sign System.” Her research interests are traditional Turkish classical music and Mevlevi music in the nineteenth century. Her comparative research on Paleo Byzantine music manuscripts and Hamparsum neumatic notation continues. She is currently focused on discovering and analyzing historical documents of neumatic music notations between the sixth and nineteenth centuries.