Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to measure the accompaniment skills of the music teacher candidates while sight reading school songs, to detect the problems and to make recommendations and to compare the data obtained with the academic achievements in the accompaniment lessons. Descriptive scanning is used in the research. The studying group of the research was formed of 30 students of 4th grade who were studying in the autumn period of the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Education Faculty Education Department of Fine Arts Main Branch of Music Teaching. The researcher gathered data of the research with the ''observation form'' developed by consulting with the opinions of the field experts. The Cronbach Alpha of the reliability coefficient of the observation form was calculated as ,88. The analysis of the data was made with SPSS programme. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and Spearman's alignment correlation coefficient were used in the resolution of the data. According to the results of the research, the accompaniment skills of the music teacher candidates were detected as low level. Furthermore it is detected that there is a middle-level, in a positive way, meaningful relationship between the accompaniment skills and the academic success in their accompaniment lessons of the music teacher candidates.

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