Abstract
This study examined the opinions of the students and piano instructors in the Turkish Education Faculties' Fine Arts Instruction Departments’ music instruction programs about piano instruction. The study data were collected using a questionnaire administered to the piano instructors and the students who took lessons from them. The study results indicated that the piano lesson should be included in the whole undergraduate process to achieve the target behaviors. Regarding the content of piano lessons, the piano instructors emphasized that the lesson content should be increased to improve piano playing skills, develop deciphering, teach technical and musical skills, improve its usability in the teaching profession, impart a broader piano instruction, and teach students about the piano repertoire of all periods in history. The study found that the instructors and students also emphasized the importance of a piece's harmonic structure, tonality, and tonal context as well as its form, sentences, divisions, and musical language regarding the improvement of technique and musicality when studying musical works (for example, etudes, sonatinas and sonatas). Another study finding showed that the most difficult lessons, according to the instructors and students, were chord clusters with three and four consecutive notes, using two techniques with two hands (for example, legato with one hand and staccato with the other) and finger numbers. Key words: Music instruction, music instructor, piano instruction, piano instructor.
Highlights
Education plays a major role in directing and advancing societies
The ranking of technique and musicality subjects by importance showed that the harmonic structure of the piece was at the eighth level, the tonality of the piece and the tonalities it is included in was at the seventh level, the form and sentences of the piece was at the sixth level, the musical language of the piece was at the fifth level, musical expressions on the piece written by
The ranking of technique and musicality subjects by importance showed that the harmonic structure of the piece was at the eighth level, the tonality of the piece and the tonalities it was included in was at the seventh level, the form and sentences of the piece was at the sixth level, the musical language of the piece was at the fifth level, musical expressions written on the piece by the composer was at the fourth level, musical period of the piece was at the third level, background information about the piece was at the second level and inhalation was at the first level
Summary
Education plays a major role in directing and advancing societies. Based on the description of the term "education," music instruction is described as “teaching individuals particular musical behaviors through their own experiences in a purposeful and methodical way, or individuals' process of changing, transforming and improving musical behaviors through their own experiences in a purposeful and methodical way" (Uçan, 1994). The smallest mean shows the highest level of importance Based on this determination, the ranking of technique and musicality subjects by importance showed that the harmonic structure of the piece was at the eighth level (very important), the tonality of the piece and the tonalities it was included in was at the seventh level, the form and sentences of the piece was at the sixth level, the musical language of the piece was at the fifth level, musical expressions written on the piece by the composer was at the fourth level, musical period of the piece was at the third level, background information about the piece was at the second level and inhalation (breathing physically) was at the first level (little importance)
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