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This research aims to determine the student's knowledge levels in the Department of music education after completing two semesters of Western music theory and practice courses. The study group consisted of 126 students studying in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Department of Music Education. The study was designed using a descriptive survey model, and the Western music theory and practice knowledge test and personal information form developed by the researchers were used as data collection tools. The data obtained were analyzed with the help of Kruskall-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests. According to the research results, the fact that the students studying in the Department of music education have taken only two semesters of Western music theory and practice courses shows that they are inadequate in musical hearing, reading and writing skills. In addition, variables such as the type of high school the students graduated from, their level of finding the duration of the course sufficient, and their musical hearing, reading and writing education before starting university revealed that there were significant differences between the total scores of the western music theory and practice course achievement test. This research is considered an important research that can contribute to the existing limited studies and develop a knowledge test to measure the knowledge of students studying in the Department of music education towards Western music theory and practice courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, a scale was developed in order to measure the attitudes of students studying in music departments towards harmony course. The scale was applied to 175 students who were studying in different music programs of universities. The scale consists of a total of 34 items and is a 5-point Likert-type scale. Ratings were made between 1 and 5. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated as 0.966. As a result of the factor analysis, it was found that the attitude scale for the harmony course consisted of only one dimension and the contribution of this dimension to the total variance was 47.708%. The factor loads of the obtained items vary between 0.603 and 0.840. According to the results obtained, the Attitude Scale for Harmony Course is a valid and reliable scale and it can be used in the field of music education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]