The aim of this research is to identify the postgraduate studies conducted between 2015-2019 on the instruments (violin, piano, guitar, flute, cello, viola, singing, baglama, kanun, and oud) that are taught in individual instrument lessons in the departments of music education. To present the results to the reader by analyzing the obtained data in depth with the method of content analysis. For this purpose, the names of the instruments were scanned as key words in the YÖK national thesis center. In the descriptive research, 563 graduate studies conducted between 2015-2019 and without access restrictions were analyzed using document analysis method, and the collected data were analyzed by content analysis. In order to ensure the content validity of the created themes, expert opinions were taken and in line with expert opinions, 9 themes (instrument type, year of study, university where the study was conducted, institute where the study was conducted, gender of the researcher, type of thesis, subject of the thesis, research type and research model) and 93 sub-themes belonging to these themes were created and coded. The data obtained in the study were analyzed by descriptive statistical methods (percentage, frequency) and presented in tables and graphs. Most of the graduate studies examined in the study were on "piano", the earliest studies accessible from YÖK's national thesis center were on "guitar" and "violin" instruments in 1986, the most work was done in 2019, most of the studies were at Gazi University and It has been concluded that there is no big difference in the number of male and female researchers who write postgraduate studies on individual instruments, that the majority of them are master's theses, and that they are made using qualitative research methods and descriptive research models.

İçerik Analizi, Bireysel Çalgı, Lisansüstü tezler