MÜZİK EĞİTİMİ ANABİLİM DALI MEZUNLARININ MÜZİK TEORİSİ- KOMPOZİSYON VE BİREYSEL PERFORMANS DERSLERİ BAŞARILARININ KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

Today, the responsibility for music teacher training is carried out by the Music Education Programs of the Fine Arts Education Departments at Faculties of Education. In the music teacher training process that comprises of 8 mid-terms, 2006 Music Teacher Education Undergraduate Cirriculum is implemented. In the programme, the courses belonging to the field of music can be classified in terms of the Collective Performance, Individual Performance, Music Pedagogy, Music Theory-Composition, Music Culture and Traditional Turkish Music sub-fields. The purpose of this study is to compare the achievements in Music Theory-Composition and Individual Performance courses of the students who have graduated from the Music Education Programme. The research is designed in the relational analysis model in order to detect the correlation of the achievements in the Music Theory-Composition and Individual Performance courses of the students. The study group consists of 64 people (42 female and 22 male) who have graduated from the Programme of Music Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Necatibey Faculty of Education, Balıkesir University in 2010, 2011 and 2012. As the data aren't normally distributed, Spearman Correlation Analysis has been used and 0.05 level of significance has been chosen for the statistical significance. According to the findings of the research, it has been concluded that while the students have been able to make an association between some of the Music Theory-Composition and Individual Performance courses, they haven't been able to make such a connection between some of the courses mentioned above.