Team Perceptions of Choir Members

Duygu Piji Küçük,Bülent Halvaşi

doi:10.11114/jets.v7i3.4043

Abstract

The success of a choir depends on the integrity, concentration and team logic to be formed within the group under the leadership of the choir conductor. Some dimensions of team perception are considered to be important for choral success such as knowing the aims of the choir, being aware of each other's talent levels, sharing the feeling of success and failure, having trust and responsibility for the group members and the conductor, being willing to work, feeling happy and proud for being a member of the choir. In this study, it is aimed to determine the level of team perception of choir members. In addition, it has been tried to determine whether the team perceptions of choir members have made a difference according to the variables of gender, age, type of graduated school and choir experience. The research group consisted of 246 choir members who are members of Marmara University Polyphonic Choir, MEF University Choir, TRT Istanbul Youth Choir, Kocaeli University Fine Arts Faculty Music Department Choir, Croatia Mato Bucar Choir and Bosnia and Herzegovina Bugojno Choir. The data of the study were collected with Chorus Team Perception Scale and personal information form, consisting of 34 items and 5 sub-dimensions. As a result of the research, it was found that the choir members generally had a high level of team perception. The average score of the choir members in sub-dimensions of the team spirit, chorus and conductor relationship, negative emotions, responsibility and effort, emotional support and collaboration, revealed a high level of team perception. According to the gender variable, a high level of difference was found in favour of female choir members among the total scores of the team members of the choir. It was found that choir members aged 22 years and older had higher choir team perception than choir members in the 14-17 and 18-21 age groups. There was no significant difference between the total score of the team perception and the sub-dimension scores of the choir members according to the type of school they graduated and the choir experience variables.

Highlights

Sound is the most important communication tool of man
Descriptive values of the choir members' team perception scores and subscale scores are presented in the table below
The levels of the choir members' team perceptions and their sub-dimensions were discussed in terms of gender, age, type of graduated school and choir experience variables, and the results obtained were discussed

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Introduction

Human voice is an instrument that allows people to talk, to interact with their environment and it can be used as a musical instrument. This structure of the human voice takes back the interaction between choral music and the human voice up to ages. The collective ceremonies and entertainment activities were in the form of collective singing. This showed the first formations of the traditional choral music and has come to this day (Gökçe, 2007). Chorus music aims to create healthy relations with the musical environment and the individual by singing with the correct and clean voices in community, with musical sensitivity, to participate in the music consciously, as performers and listeners and to contribute to the cultural development by using the song language (Çevik, 1997; Apaydın, 2006)

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