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This study aims to determine to what extent preschool teachers include traditional Turkish music within the scope of music activities and what is the effect of this music on children. The study which was designed as qualitative research. A total of 50 preschool teachers, 92% of whom are female (n=46) and 8% are male (n=4), constitute the participants of the study. In the study, "semistructured interview form" prepared by the researchers was used as a data collection tool. The obtained data were analyzed according to thematic analysis technique. The research findings were analyzed under four themes: "Likes and Use", "Teaching", "Developmental Contributions" and "Challenges and Solutions". As a result of the research, it was found that preschool teachers partially included traditional Turkish music in their music activities, they did not receive training on teaching traditional Turkish music during their undergraduate education, children had various difficulties in vocalizing traditional Turkish music, and traditional Turkish music had development areas such as cognitive, psychomotor and language skills on children. It has been concluded that it has positive effects on the development of cultural memory and cultural transmission.

In this study, it is aimed to determine the effects of active learning activities on viola students' performance and motivation. One group pretest-posttest experimental design was used in the study. The study group consist of 10 students, 7 of them receiving Viola training within the scope of the Individual Instrument course at Gaziosmanpasa University Fine Arts Education Department Music Education Department and 3 students within the scope of Turkish and Western Music Instruments course at Tokat Fine Arts and Sports High School. During the eight-week practice, with the students in the study group, active learning-based activities which are prepared for the viola training were carried out with students in the study group. In the study, as a means of data collection, by adapting 'Exam Performance' dimension of 'Violin Lesson Performance Form' to the viola, the 'Motivation Scale' part of 'Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire' were used. According to the results of the study, it was determined that the activities based on active learning increased viola performance success, and influenced the students' motivation for viola lesson positively.

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This research has been conducted with the aim of detecting to what extend the programs watched effect the children's lives in terms of music education by examining the parallelism status of music in TV kids programs to the music course education program. The data of the research has been obtained by making literature review and applying questionnaire to the individuals in different sociocultural and economic level. According to obtained results, the music in TV kids program is extremely effective in performing most of the objectives set out in the curriculum. However, it was detected as a result of the research that the music in TV kids program shows some differences among sample groups at different sociocultural and economic levels in performing the objectives set out in the curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]