@article{2020,title={The Effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises in Flute Education on Students' Performance Success},abstractNode={In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercises based on cognitive behavioral therapy in the field of psychotherapy on flute performance success of the students receiving Individual Instrument (Flute) Education. The study was conducted on the basis of a random pattern with a pretest-posttest control group, which is one of the real experimental research approaches. The study group of the research consists of undergraduate students (n=10) at the 1st grade who were studying at Gazi University Gazi Faculty of Education Fine Arts Education Department of Music Education in the spring semester of 2018-2019 academic year and started playing the flute at the first grade. During the 8-week experimental process, the flute teaching program based on progressive muscle relaxation exercises was applied to the experimental group and the traditional flute teaching program was implemented on the control group. Measurement performed over the same surveys (Gariboldi and Moyse's surveys) during the pretest and posttest stage including different technical and musical skills determined by taking expert opinions in order to identify the success levels of the experimental and control groups regarding their flute performances, were scored through the examination of the video records of student performances by 3 lecturers specialized in their fields. In the research, the data were obtained using the "Performance Assessment Form" created by the researcher in line with expert opinions. The obtained data were analyzed through SPSS 23.0. In the analysis of the data, after the interrater reliability (α), intraclass correlation coefficient, Kendall's W test results and the normal distribution were first examined, the Mann-Whitney U test, where mean ranks of small and independent groups were compared, was applied to compare the pretest scores of experimental and control groups before the implementation, and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, where the means of the dependent groups were compared, was applied to compare the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental and control groups; the effect size (r) values were checked. According to the results of the research, it was concluded that the flute teaching based on progressive muscle relaxation exercises affected the performance success of the students in the experimental group positively and at a high level. When reviewed in terms of the dimensions (n=12) comprising the flute performance success, a significant and high-level increase was observed in the dimensions (n=4) of “Ability to Use Abdominal Breathing Correctly and Efficiently", “Ability to Play the Notes Correctly” , “Ability to Play in Compliance with Rhythmic Patterns”, “Ability to Play Play with İntegrity and Correct Phrasing”. From Gariboldi and Moyse's surveys researching the effect on performance success, it was concluded that the significant difference appeared in the dimensions of “Ability to Use Abdominal Breathing Correctly and Efficiently”, “Ability to Play the Notes Correctly”, “Ability to Obtain a Quality-Strong-Bright-Voluminous Tone”, “Ability to Practice Articulations Correctly”, “Ability to Use Fingers Smoothly”, “Ability to Play with İntegrity and Correct Phrasing” (n=6) in Moyse's survey scores affected the performance success positively and at a high level.},author={Burcu AKBULUT BİLİCİ-Kübra Dilek TANKIZ - Sadık ÖZÇELİK},year={2020},journal={Turkish Studies-Educational Sciences}}