Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Müzik Dersine Yönelik Görüşleri (Niğde İli Örneği)

The aim of research is to determine the opinions of secondary school students in Nigde District about music lesson, and show the current status of available music lessons and also bring forward a proposal for music lessons. Research is descriptive quality. Related data has been collected through unstructured interview form that was developed by researchers according to ideas of specialists. In the analysis of qualitative data, content analysis has been used. The universe of research consists of secondary school students who keeps learning during the education periods of 2012-20013/2013-2014 in secondary schools of Nigde Province under authority of Directorate of National Education; the sample of research consists of 644 students, who have been randomly selected and study in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th classes from secondary schools Alparslan, Kemal Aydogan, 19 Mayis, 23 Nisan Havacilar, Selcuk, Ataturk and Cumhuriyet. According to findings in this research, the majority of students in 5th class of secondary school finds music lesson pleasurable, loves music lesson and music teacher; the majority of students in 6th class likes music lesson and finds music lesson important and funny; the majority of students in 7th class of secondary school likes music lesson, finds music lessons funny and music lessons related behaviors they see as positive; the majority of students in 8th class likes music lesson and finds music lesson relaxing and important. Moreover, the opinions of students from classes 5, 6, 7 and 8 of secondary school depend on lesson, teacher and student, so that these ideas focus on affective field. Keywords. Secondary School, Music, Music Lesson, Opinion of Students. SUMMARY Purpose and Significance: The goal of this study is to determine the ideas of secondary school students about music lesson by using the sample of Nigde city, then propound the attitudes of these students to current music lessons in secondary school in the direction of these ideas, and finally bring forward a proposal for an effective music lesson. This study has a significance in order to determine the ideas of secondary school students about music lesson by using the sample of Nigde city and develop an effective music lesson in the direction of students' attitude to music lessons.