Examination of the Attitudes of the Candidates for Music Teacher towards Traditional Turkish Music Courses In Terms Of Various Variables
Abstract
The purpose of the present study is to examine the attitudes of the fourth-year students at the Department of Music Teaching at the Faculty of Education towards “Traditional Turkish Music Courses”. Within the framework of this basic purpose, this study is designed to examine the attitudes of the fourth-year students at the Department of Music Teaching at the Faculty of Education towards the courses of TTFM (Traditional Turkish Folk Music) and TTAM (Traditional Turkish Art Music) in terms of various variables and to find out whether there is a significant relationship between them.This study is a research conducted as a survey to determine the attitudes of the students at the Department of Music Teaching towards TTFM and TTAM. The universe of the study consists of the students enrolled at the 23 Departments of Music Teaching affiliated to The Council of Higher Education in Turkey. The sample of the study is composed of the fourth-year students at 18 Departments of Music Teaching.In the study, was usedan Attitude-Scale for Traditional Turkish Music (TTFM-TTAM), developed by the researcher. The Scale consists of 24 questions – 9 negative and 15 positive. It is one-dimensional and the variance explained by the single factor has been found as 40% and the coefficient of reliability (Cronbach Alpha) as 0,93.The study concluded that the students had a high positive score of attitude to the courses of TTFM and TTAM and there was not a significant difference between the attitudes to these two courses. The students’ attitudes to the courses of Traditional Turkish Music showed considerable differences, depending ontheir high-schools, their current universities, individual instruments and their favourite music.
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