Examining the potential of students who take violin education in divisions of music education, in recognizing and implementing musical dynamics: Atatürk University sample

The main purpose of this research is to examine the potential of students who take violin education in Divisions of Music Education, in recognizing and implementing musical dynamis; to introduce the interaction between each other, to measure the impacts of building awareness on musical dynamics during the process of implementation, and to find out whether these cases differ or not, according to the types of high scool which the students graduated from and their grade levels. Experimental and descriptive methods have been used together in this study. In descriptive part, a scale consisting of written questions have been used in order to measure the students? potential of recognizing the musical dynamics. In experimental part, the pretest-posttest design with one group have been used and implemented to 3rd grade and 4th grade students who are studying at AUKKFE Department of Fine Arts Education, Division of Music Education. During the implementation, two records have been filed and these records have been processed to the observation form by the domain experts, by using ?Five-Unit Likert Scale?. In the light of the obtained results, it has been determined that; in the implementation of musical dynamics, there are no differences in terms of the grade level and type of high school having been graduated from. While the answers given by the students to the written questions show an accuracy, it has been observed that they obtained low marks in the pretest. The success rate has risen in the posttest with making the musical dynamics in the notes more apparent, and without any guidance. In conclusion, it has been found that recognizing the musical dynamics does not help the implementation process; and building simple awarenesses contributes to the playing of musical dynamics. Key Words: Violin Education, Musical Dynamic, O. Rieding B Minor Concerto.