Abstract:
Music education, which enables the cognitive, emotional and psychomotor development of individuals,
is an indispensable element of modern education. Besides, music enables individual to establish
communication with his /her environment more easily and express his/her feelings more easily and
thus contributes to the development of social skills and self-confidence. In the pre-school period, the
accurate determination of children’s talents and planning of their music education are of great
importance because music education is to be approached methodologically and consciously and
started at an early age. As Kodaly, who argues that music education starts as early as the pre-natal
period, states family is of great importance in music education. One of the most important factors that
encourage the children for musical education are the parents and the home atmosphere. Therefore,
family plays an important part in the emergence and development of the child’s musical talent at an
early age.
In this study in which families’ consciousness levels and approaches in the emergence and
development of pre-school children’s musical talents are examined, the survey model, which is one of
the qualitative study techniques, was used n. The analysis of the data obtained has been made using
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS17:00). According to the results of the study, it was
observed that although the frequency parents sing with their children, listen to music and play musical
games with their children is good, the frequency they take their children to musical activities, follow
musical activities at school and provide them private music education is low
