The analysis of lullaby, improvisation and Zeybek air by Ulvi Cemal Erkin in terms of their functionality in educational music

The study aims to reveal the functionality of Ulvi Cemal Erkin's Lullaby, Improvisation and Zeybek Folk Song works in the violin teaching method s and to display the contributions of these works to teaching violin and through technical studies and practices to help the students of Fine Arts School, to promote these works to Turkish youth and prevent them to be forgotten. On account of the fact that Ulvi Cemal Erkin was a composer who reflects the spirit of 'Republican Period Musical Revolution' and his works consist of features of both Turkish Art music and Turkish Folk music, his works Lullaby, Improvisation and Zeybek Air has been opted for to be analyzed. Here by students could hear their traditional Art Turkish. Lullaby, Improvisation and Zeybek Air has been analyzed and practice suggestions on string techniques, right and left hand practicing techniques, transition of positions and (fingering) in these works have been prepared and presented for students who study aforementioned works. This study has been constituted with the index scanning and content analysis techniques and it is restricted to violin students of Fine Arts Schools and violin scores of Lullaby, Improvisation and Zeybek Air by Ulvi Cemal Erkin. Study includes the whole part of Lullaby, Andante section of the Improvisation, and initial 24 bars of Zeybek Air. Since the target group is the students of Fine Arts Schools only certain parts of the works have been taken into consideration in order to optimize and simplify them to the students level of education. It is not rare to encounter such examples in early Level music instruction. For exmple: excerps from L.v. Beethoven's Symphony no. 9, Für Elise; Mozart's Symphony no. 40, Magic Flute Opera as well as Dede Efendi's Yine bir Gülnihal are simplified and widely used melodies in music education. Works, including I. II. III. and IV. positions, are arranged and simplified in regard to, the levels of Fine Arts Schools' violin course students of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades. Keywords: Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Republican Period Music Education, Türk Beşleri, Educational Music.