Abstract:

Musical talent and creativity is an important field of study in gifted education research. Systematic reviews of musical talent and creativity enable researchers to develop a holistic perspective in this field. In this descriptive study, document analysis method which is one of the qualitative research design, was used. The data source of the research consists of postgraduate theses on musical talent and creativity in the field of music in Turkey between the years 2000-2023 in the database of the Turkish National Thesis Center. As a data collection tool, a total of 18 masters’ and 6 doctoral theses in the field of musical talent, 7 master's theses and 3 doctoral theses in the field of musical creativity were obtained by searchning the relevant keywords are “Talent, Gifted, Creativity, and Music”. In the analysis of data; Content analysis method was used in subjects such as research method and data analysis method. In addition, descriptive analysis method was used in subjects such as the university and year the thesis was written. As a result of the research, it was determined that the highest number of thesis types was the master's thesis and in 2019. It has been determined that the words music education and musical talent exam are mostly used in the keywords of theses on musical talent and creativity. As for the studies on musical talent, the highest number belongs to the master's thesis and they were mostly written at Marmara University, while it was determined that the majority of doctoral theses were written at Gazi University. On musical creativity, it was seen that primarily master's theses were written at Marmara University. According to the data collection method of the graduate theses on musical talent, mostly qualitative method was used, and according to the data collection method of the graduate theses on musical creativity, quantitative method mostly was used. It has been determined that one of the quantitative techniques of the postgraduate studies on musical talent is descriptive statistics and the qualitative techniques is content analysis. It has been determined that non-parametric tests are mostly used in the analysis of quantitative research in theses on musical creativity, while situation and content analysis is used in the analysis of qualitative research.

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