Abstract: The aim of the study is to determine the problems encountered by music teacher candidates in
piano education who attend to Department of Music Education in Turkey in Undergraduate III
and IV levels, in terms of application of pedaling in the Romantic Period piano works and to
offer solutions for the findings obtained. During the data collection phase of the study, music
teacher candidates have been asked to write a composition on the problems they had experienced
with the application of pedaling in the Romantic period piano works through the forum created
on the Internet environment. Compositions were assessed and an item pool has been established
for the questionnaire to be used in the study. The item pool was expanded following the research
conducted on the body of literature related to the subject. The questionnaire created was applied
462 Undergraduate music teacher candidates studying piano in nine Universities. In the analysis
of the data, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis test and Chi-square test were used for
nonparametric tests for identified sub-problem using SPSS (The Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences) 20 package program; Frequency (f), Percentage (%) are used from Descriptive
Statistics. |
Citation: [KARAKELLE, Sibel. "PROBLEMS AND SOLUTION SUGGESTIONS TO CHALLENGES MUSIC TEACHER CANDIDATES FACE WITHIN 'APPLICATION OF PEDALING' PHASE IN ROMANTIC PERIOD PIANO WORKS." IJAH, vol. 1, no. 11, 2017, pp. 990-1003. December.] |