EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR VIOLA USED IN FINE ARTS HIGH SCHOOLS AND MUSIC EDUCATION DEPARMENTS

Viola, a member of the string instrument family (violin, viola, violoncello and double bass), has been used in the 16th century and had undergone some structural changes in the historical process and took its final form today. At this point, it is seen that the violin and viola have similarities in terms of both the posture and grip and the playing techniques. In our country's professional music education institutions, there is a need for written-printed educational materials with different disciplines to be used in the viola education and teaching process as in the education and training of each instrument. However, it is thought that most of these materials used in the education process in many institutions (Fine Arts High Schools, Faculty of Education, etc.) that are used in professional music education are mainly written for violin and adapted to viola. In this study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, literature survey and interview technique is used, information about which written and printed educational materials used by the vocational music education institutions in our country and the viola educators in the departments of music education were taken or not used. It is presented