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This research aims to reveal the functionality of the music courses that are being carried out in the secondary education institutions, based on the opinions of the music teachers in these institutions about the functioning of the music courses and bring suggestions for the solution of the problems encountered in the direction of achieving the objectives of the course. The quality research scheme for research was selected. The research data was collected through semi-configured conversations conducted with eleven music teachers randomly selected from the twenty general high school and anadolu high school located in the central districts of Samsun, Atakum, Primadim and Canik. In the study, the type of content analysis was used as a ‘category analysis’. In the analysis of the interview questions, the topics "Fysical Equipment", "Teaching Program", "Music Course Approaches", "Guidance" and "The Effectiveness of the Music Course" were reached and related codes. Research results have shown that there are many factors that prevent high school music courses from being effectively processed and achieving the course’s goals. Music teachers have expressed their views on the lack of weekly music lesson hours, the necessary physical equipment for music lessons, the applicability of the secondary school music teaching program, the tutor, school administrator, other branch teachers and students' attitudes towards music lessons, the regulation of selectively courses and the problems they encounter in the situation of music lessons within the general education system. At the end of the study, a variety of solutions were proposed, such as increasing the interest of students in music courses and providing the lesson and musical tools needed to provide the schools with the desired musical behavior, theoretically simplifying the middle school music teaching program and enriching it with musical activities aimed at the application.

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