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This study was designed to investigate the attitudes of high school students towards music course. The sample in the research, which was carried out by Survey methods, consisted of 454 students from five different high schools under the Ministry of Education in the city center of Mersin, in 2011-2012 academic year. The data was gathered with “Personal Information Form” and “Attitudes Towards Music Course Scale” which was developed by Nacakcı (2006). The data obtained were analyzed through t-test and one way variance analysis (ANOVA).Findings show that students have generally positive attitudes towards music lessons, the attitude of the students does not show significant difference due to their gender (p>.05); and statistically significant differences (p <.05) identified according to the types of education field and education level of the family.

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