The Necessity of National Music Training

Abstract

Development of the culture, which is one of the factors that form the history of humanity, has enabled the development of humanity as well. Every society's own culture mingles its own culture to the world's richness and causes world's culture to change. As a result of these changes, national cultures and art of the societies that are in the process of globalization can be affected in a negative or positive way. Within this period, training conscious individuals and providing qualified music training in the period of formal education that ranges from pre-school time until university are needed.

The success of an education programme regards to what extent the student can use what he/she has learned, produce and how he/she leads the society. One of the objectives of music training programme must be to raise the individuals who can perceive past-present and future, comment on them, keep up with the society in which they live, know universal type of music based upon their own music thereby being able to understand different cultures.

During the research, by reviewing the literature, qualitative research model has been used; similar studies, books, articles, symposium notes, publications and dissertations that are related to this research’s topic have been analyzed; and the necessity of universal music education has been highlighted.

Children can learn universal music more easily thanks to the music training/teaching that are provided in company with kid songs composed by anonymous tunes. Starting from their own music, thus, children are able to comprehend the music of all the existing nations better, and know different cultures. A music education/teaching that includes Turkish school songs taking source from local music and having been composed in this way will have positive effects in terms of our national music culture.

Being one of the basic human rights, music training cannot be performed under universal values in our country having rational, powerful and rich music education accumulation,  knowledge and experience that cannot be benefitted enough due to some reasons. Whereas, music training and music culture are the most significant culture sources of a country.

Keywords: Music, music training, national music training.