Analysis of methods used in Turkish Music cello education and deficiencies in the field

Year 2024, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, 245 - 262, 30.12.2024

Gülcan Elibol , Özcan Çetik

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14504812

Abstract

Turkish Music cello performance has developed with individual creativity and has been passed on to the future through the meşk system. When we examine the curricula of institutions that provide Turkish music cello education, it is seen that the sources used at the beginner level are western sources, in addition, there are few methods written specifically for Turkish Music, and when the processes of Turkish Music cello education that have been going on for many years are examined, it is seen that instrumental and oral works of Traditional Turkish Music are used as sources. It is important to evaluate and reveal the deficiencies in Turkish Music cello education in terms of method, curriculum, method, resource, common language in education. It is aimed to offer solutions to the problems in order to bring cello education to a better level. For this purpose, the academic studies conducted in order to reveal the problems in the field and to address these problems in every aspect have been presented in the form of a compilation, the contributions to the field have been revealed by analyzing the methods written specifically for Turkish music, and as a result of all these, solutions to the problems in cello education have been proposed.

Keywords

Cello education, Cello teaching methods, Instructional strength, Teaching methods, Turkish Music

Examining the instructional strengths of Turkish music cello training methods

Abstract

The performance of Turkish music on the cello has developed with the unique styles of artists and has been transmitted to future generations through the meşk system. Since there is no specific method or applied approach written specifically for Turkish music, education has been entirely based on the Western system up to the present day. To outline the current state of cello education and to view the shortcomings in this field from a broader perspective, it is important to evaluate Turkish music cello education in terms of aspects such as method, curriculum, resources, and a common language in education. This study aims to examine the methods used in Turkish music cello education in terms of their use of music pedagogical methods. Since the study was conducted by analyzing the sources available in the literature through the document analysis technique, it is a study in line with the qualitative research method. During the research process, five methods related to Turkish music were identified. The accessible methods include Barış Demirci's book "Turkish Music Scales for Cello", Levent Değirmencioğlu and Hacı Mehmet Andaç's book "Cello Education in Turkish Music", Sıtkı Bahadır Tutu's book "40 Makamsal Etudes for Cello", Taner Topaloğlu's book "Anatolian Melodies with Thumb Technique in Cello Education", and Mehmet Can Çiftçibaşı's book "Turkish Folk Melodies Album for Cello." The content analysis of these books was conducted, and their scope and content analyses were summarized and presented in tables. Through the analyses, it was observed that two of the books are based on the tempered system, while the other books are methods aimed at teaching the fundamental makam and usul of Turkish music through etudes and schematic representation approaches, targeting intermediate levels. In addition to the methods, a review of theses written on cello education in the literature concluded that the main issues in Turkish music cello education are curriculum, applied methods, resource and method deficiencies, content inadequacies in methods, the working environment in educational institutions, insufficient lesson hours, and lack of materials. To solve these issues and to elevate cello education to a better level, solution suggestions have been presented..

Keywords

Cello education, Cello teaching methods, Instructional strength, Teaching methods, Turkish Music

Ethical Statement

There is no need ethical committee approval. This research is limited to methods specifically written for Turkish music cello education and academic studies providing information about methods, curricula, sources, and teaching processes in cello education. All cello methods with the term "Turkish Music" were included in this study. Five books written in this field were accessible.

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