Abstract:
This study aimed to determine utility of flamenco guitar styles accompanied with
ballads that eligible for Music course curriculum. Ballads named ‘Şu Dereler Şu Düzler
(Bombili)’ and ‘Tin Tin Tini Mini Hanım’ were chosen for the study and arranged in
compliance with the flamenco guitar rendering styles using rasgueado, alzapua,
golpe and rumba techniques. Students’ guitar playing skills were taken into
consideration on setting different variations of these techniques. The study group
covered 16 students receiving individual instrument (guitar) education in Ataturk
University Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education Department of Music Education
during the academic year of 2014-2015. In the study, an experimental research
design with pre-test/post-test and control group, a special type of random
assignment, was used. Topics arranged for the teaching system were studied with the
experimental group on the chosen ballads for the research with practical examples.
Within the research design, except for the conventional techniques, none of the other
approaches or designs was used for the control group. Non-parametric test of MannWhitney
U Test was used in order to determine whether a significant difference exists
between pre-test and post-test results of the control and experimental groups. On
assessing the whole results, it was obvious that experimental group students were
more successful at accompanying the ballads in comparison with the control group
students.
