The effect of guitar applied harmony teaching to the level of knowledge performance of student

This research aims to search the effects of guitar applied harmony teaching to the knowledge and performance access of a student. For this purpose, it was searched that whether there is a significant differences on students? knowledge and performance access between the students who took the guitar applied harmony education and the students who did not take this education.Another aspect of the research in a descriptive aspect of an experimental study. The survey to obtain data for the Guitar Applied Harmony Teaching [GAHT] was first initiated with the review of literature, in order to measure whether there is a meaningful change on GAHT applied students? knowledge and performance level, pretest-posttest control group model was used.The universe of the research was the students from Faculty of Education Fine Arts Education Department Music Education Division in 2010-2011 academic year in bachelor?s degree of 3 and 4 classes of guitar students (N=140). The sample of the research consists of total 34 guitar students in bachelor?s degree of 3 and 4 classes from Nigde University, Gazi University, Selcuk University, Harran University, Dokuz Eylul University.The studies prepared by researcher with guitar applied harmony teaching cases which last eight weeks were conducted in the process of practice. Different data collection techniques were used before and after the application. Preliminary data for the research was collected with the literature scanning method. Subsequently, with the interview technique to determine the views guitar and harmony teaching staff the data have been obtained. Determining the effectiveness level of the research pretest-posttest practices and finally determining the experimental group guitar students' views with the questionnaire technique the data have been obtained.In the analysis of the data were used from statistical tests. Firstly, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to seek whether data fits the normal distribution or not . Because of the data do not fit the normal distribution and the sample is not large enough Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare two independent groups, Wicoxon test was used for dependent groups. The study analyzes the results obtained for the 0.05 significance level interpreted. SPSS 19.0 package program was used for analysis in the study area.Regard to the size of experimental groups in the study all the knowledge and performance levels according to the findings of, it was concluded that the knowledge and performance access of the guitar students has significiant differences in favor of the the experimental group. In other words, contrary to the students learned Harmony-Counterpoint-Accompaniment course by traditional practice (piano applied) there is a significant differences in knowledge and performance access of the students to receive GAHT [Z=3.62;p<0.05]. In the light of these findings for the guitar and harmony teaching staff guitar applied harmony teaching and for researchers on the availability of the guitar with other courses presented some suggestions on research topics.