THE OBJECTIVES OF MUSIC TRAINING and TEACHING COURSES

Our objective is to improve our students’ skills of:

• Singing the national anthems and marching songs, the Turkish National Anthem being in the first place as well as the folk songs and local rhymes in a correct and meaningful way.   
• Using one’s voice in a correct and effective way. 
• Distinguishing what is qualified from what is not in all styles of music.  
• Having acquaintance with the leading pieces of European and world music.
• Using one’s voice in a healthy and conscious way in the voice mutation process of adolescence.  

THE PURPOSES OF MUSIC TRAINING and TEACHING COURSES

• Our main purposes in music training are to awaken a love of music in the child and improve her/his world of imagination, sense of rhythm and musical ear. 
• Music training and education in Marmara Elementary School begins from the 1^st grade both visually and practically. Every month a famous composer and a music instrument are introduced to the students, and orf techniques are extensively applied.
• Our students receive metallophone, melodica and block flute beginning from kindergarten. Skilled and eager students are encouraged to play an instrument at their own will. 
• In 1^st and 2^nd grades, techniques of singing songs, percussion instruments and instrument playing techniques are applied. In the learning of musical notes, bona, solfege and instrument training is essential. Our students have greater opportunity to receive a more advanced level of education with the use of music instruments in music courses. Important pieces of music literature are regularly listened in our courses. The aim is to improve the listening skill of the students and to contribute to their cultural lives. 
• Every student attending to the art activities have the opportunity to present their performances at atelier concerts and endyear shows.

THE CLASSROOMS OF THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT 

• In line with these objectives, music training classrooms are prepared so as to provide an extensive spectrum of opportunities. Our students can make music when they want with the opportunities provided by our four music classrooms and six music units where piano, violin, guitar, keyboard and orchestra studies are conducted. There is piano in all our classrooms where art courses are conducted.
• Music and sound records of the dramas and musicals are done by our own music department.