Özet:

 In beginner level violin and viola training, the classical teaching method starting with the empty string, and the keeping finger method, which is put forward by the researcher, starting with the first finger keeping and continues without interrupting the finger contact on the touch, were experimentally compared within the scope of the Ph.D. dissertation. The experimental and control groups consisting of violin and viola students continuing their education in the institutions providing vocational music education, currently attending the first year of their vocational education, and who have never received a stringed instrument education before, participated in the experimental process for a whole school year. After the completion of the experimental process, the subject of this research was formed by revealing the opinions of the violin and viola educators, being the instructors, on the keeping finger method in parallel with their observations within the process. The opinions were addressed under three main headings: bow pulling stage, single string studies, and shifting studies. Besides those headings, under various subheadings as well such as posture-hold, finger placement, finger dropping, getting clean tones, control over the instrument, right and left-hand coordination, rhythmical and up-to-tempo playing ability, and effect on the right hand; the effectiveness of the keeping finger method was tried to be revealed within the framework of the opinions. In the beginner level violin and viola training, it is expressed by the instructors that the keeping finger method can ensure success in both bow study and single string studies as well as in the shifting studies.

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