Abstract
The article presents the results of a study carried out within the scope of a project entitled, “Arranged Bursa Folk Songs for Fourhands Piano Extended Piano Techniques and Teaching in Music Education Departments.” It is number KUAP (E)-2014/28 of the Uludag University Scientific Research Projects Unit and was supported by the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality. Six Bursa Folk Songs- were arranged for fourhands piano by composer Berkant Gençkal. Five of them were taught and played by six students in chamber music lessons in the Uludag University Music Education Department at the undergraduate and graduate level during the 2015 spring semester. The practice finished with a concert. All pieces were recorded by two teachers. The aim of the project is to enrich the Turkish piano literature and examine the effects on student education. The results were analysed with the N-Vivo Qualitative research programme. According to answers provided by six students to semi-structured interview questions, all students found the project positive in terms of having them acquire a different in chamber music repertoire with its own traditional rhythm and notation. Key words: Folk song arrangement, fourhands piano, piano education, piano pedagogy, music education, Bursa, Turkey.
Highlights
Fourhands piano repertoire includes different challenges, with two pianists playing on one piano, compared to the solo pianiste
The article presents the results of a study carried out within the scope of a project entitled, “Arranged Bursa Folk Songs for Fourhands Piano Extended Piano Techniques and Teaching in Music Education Departments.”
Six Bursa Folk Songs- were arranged for fourhands piano by composer Berkant Gençkal
Summary
Fourhands piano repertoire includes different challenges, with two pianists playing on one piano, compared to the solo pianiste. According to the literature review, there are pieces composed for solo piano but arranged for fourhands: for examples for pianist Şirin Akbulut Demirci and Birce Arsan Asman, Horon (2010) was arranged for fourhands, and Bundle by Ahmet Adnan Saygun (suite for violin and piano Op.33, 1956) was played as a fourhands piece for the first time in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and it has been performed at the International Bellapais Spring Festival. (https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesruh_Sava%C5%9F, 04.05.2016) 5 Ahmet Adnan Saygun (September 1907 – 6 January 1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. Five of the arranged Bursa folk songs for fourhands piano were taught and played by six students during chamber music lessons in Uludağ University’s Music Education Department at the undergraduate and graduate level during the 2015 Spring Semester (One was a second degree undergraduate, two were third degree students, and three were graduate students). The aim of the project was to enrich the Turkish piano literature, and examine the effects on student education in their chamber music and piano lessons
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