Browsing by Author "Turjama, Toni"

Goals. My bachelor’s thesis studies connections between music education and music hobby. More accurately, I’m studying what kind of effects obligatory elementary school music education has had on music hobby and motivation of hobby in young adult amateur musicians’ experiences. Music hobby is marginally noticed in elementary school curriculum 1994 and 2004. These two have been in use during the study participants’ elementary school years. For me as a same age amateur musician, my study’s subject offers an interesting survey to experiences of amateur musicians. Methods. In my study I did a case study by interviewing four young adult amateur musicians. My interview method was qualitative semi-structured theme interview which subjects were connected to my theory part. In interviews interviewees narrated their experiences of their elementary school years. From transcribed interviews I analysed the substantive experiences and connected them to the theory. Results and conclusion. The interviews showed that interviewees experiences of elementary school music education and its effects on music hobby varies to some extent. The conclusion can be that activities during music classes aren’t very significant, but other school activities have had clearly more importance. For example band playing with friends during breaks and music teacher’s extra support have been significant to the interviewees. It would be interesting to extend this study in my master’s thesis by studying teachers who teach music and taking notice to the new 2016 curriculum.