Examination of Polish, Hungarian and Turkish flute methods within the framework of national approach

Abstract

Methods, significant materials in flute education, are extremely important factors that guide the education process of a musician in addition to technical and musical development. The general purpose of this study, based on the argument that methods are a means of cultural transmission as well as providing playing skills, is the examination of national factors in the basic level methods of flute education in Poland, Hungary and Turkey, three countries influenced by the nationalist movement, which were mentioned in Eugeniusz Towarnicki's "Szkola Na Flet", Zoltán Jeney's "Fuvolaiskola-l" and Mustafa Arı's "Yan Flüt Metodu" books. In this study, which has a descriptive research pattern, the data were obtained through content analysis and digitized and interpreted. As a result of the study, it was seen that unlike other commonly used methods, Polish, Hungarian and Turkish methods were affected by nationalist movement and they also serve as a means of cultural transmission by including folk music, national composers, scale/mode/maqam and musical meters. In the light of the determined findings, suggestions were made about which elements should be included in the methods to be created in the future.