Investigation of the attitudes of conservatory students studying Turkish music intended for the piano course (Eastern Anatolian Region)

This study aims to investigate the place of the piano, which has an important place in Western music, in Turkish music education and the attitudes of students intended for this instrument. The study also seeks to answer the questions of whether Western music techniques and methods are included in Turkish music education and finally whether Turkish and Western music genres have common or similar aspects in the education system. Using the "Attitude Scale Intended for Piano Lesson" developed by Tufan and Güdek (2008), the population of the study consisted of conservatory students studying Turkish music in the Eastern Anatolia Region, and the sample consisted of Turkish music conservatory students from Ardahan University, Fırat University, Kafkas University and Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. The data obtained in this study with 184 participants are analysed through SPSS (The Statistical Packet For Social Sciences) program The study mainly investigates whether there are differences in the participants' attitudes intended for the piano lesson in terms of gender, the type of high school the students graduated from, their class level, the availability of sufficient number of classrooms or access to a piano to study piano, the ownership of a piano or a similar keyboard-type instrument, the type of music they listen to, and whether they find themselves successful in the lesson. The results of the analysis show that there is no significant effect on the participants' attitudes intended for the piano lesson and the sub-dimensions of satisfaction and value in terms of gender, class level, access to classrooms and instruments, and the types of music they listen to, while there are differences in the general attitude, satisfaction and value sub-dimensions according to the high schools graduated from and self-evaluation. The overall results of the study show that the students who participated in the research have a positive attitude intended for the piano lesson.