Study and Analysis of the Initiation Methods to the Viola More Used by Teachers of Elementary Education of the Province of Valencia

Abstract

This article studies the most commonly used methods of initiation to viola among teachers in the elementary teaching of Valencia. In the study, 26 teachers from 21 public conservatories were involved. The instrument of information collection the questionnaire has been a questionnary designed according to criteria based on simplicity, precision and being to the point of the 32 items that compose it and the discretion and preservation of anonymity in the handling of the information collected. The research methodology has been mixed. We used a complementary strategy that combines both orientations methods, quantitative and qualitative, dealing with the different perspectives of a different part of the reality to be investigated. It is observed how the teacher knows a variety of methods and books for initiation, but on the contrary, they make use of exercises previous to the book of initiation. Moreover, teachers show that the most known and used method of initiation is that of Suzuki even though most of them are not trained in that method.