The Investigation of Etudes and Pieces Used in Beginning Flute Education in Music Teacher Education Departments

Abstract

In this paper, the investigation of the most common etudes-pieces used in the first year flute education from the angle of target and target behaviours was purposed. Interview, questionairre and literature review techniques were used to gather the information needed. Classifications were done, qualitative and quantitative tables were made and statistical frequencies-percentages were used. As a result of these studies, it was determined that there is not a common flute education programme in application in the music education main science branches, at the same time, the programmes applied in these branches include different topics from each other besides similar ones. The accordance of the two most common pieces and an etude book to the education programme from the angle of target and target behaviours was investigated. It was oserved that the etude book an done of the pieces are in accordance with the education programme but the other piece is not.