Model book recommendation for amateur flute education based on teachers 'views about resource books

Purposes of this study were to (a) determine teachers' considerations about sourcebooks that used in flute education and (b) propose a model sourcebook according to the characteristic of intended audience and their objective. Participants were teachers (N = 47) who were actively teaching flute lessons to students from various age groups from different cities of Turkey. In the study, teachers have implemented a three-part survey including personal information, questions about current source books being used and preferences about the content of the sourcebook to be created. According to the findings, teachers indicated that current sourcebooks were not suitable for amateur flute education and there was a lack of published sourcebook pertaining to amateur flute education in Turkey. Thus, a model sourcebook including Turkish musical pieces was proposed to meet the requirements of teachers.