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INTERNATIONAL PARIS CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES – III, Paris, France, 15 - 17 November 2019, pp.242-245, (Full Text)
Piano has a significant place in the education of music; it is used as the main lesson tool almost in every lesson related to music. Piano education is provided in conservatories and music schools both as a major and as subsidiary/complementary/auxiliary concentration.
Major piano education proceeds through traditional methods and materials, on the basis of master-apprentice relationship. Subsidiary (complementary, auxiliary) piano lessons, which are taught students whose major is not piano, does not aim to provide a second profession; therefore, subsidiary piano education is not planned with traditional approaches as it is in major piano education, because that causes student to miss out the equipments which he/she will need in his/her own major.
While mastering in piano has been aimed through “artistic skills” in major piano education, progress of the student should be aimed in subsidiary piano education through the “functional skills” acquired on piano. When subsidiary piano education is planned in order to provide the skills that are appropriate to the major of the student, when method and materials are used in accordance with this plan, and assessment and evaluation in accordance with this material is performed, the quality of the education will undoubtedly increase, it will be possible to train more well-equipped musicians.