The Influence of Knowing How to and Continuity to Play Piano Toward the Ability of Performing Solfeggio

摘要

Educational improvement at the level of universities is certainly impacted by all the efforts from stakeholders in managing the process of learning. Learning music at PMG Department, majoring on church music at IAKN Tarutung North Sumatera, Indonesia, has a regulation that all the students of music department have a compulsory to practice continually how to play piano practically as to practice solfeggio to perform harmony to the church songs, and this process they do as the extra drills out of formal schedule of learning in the campus. Sample consists of 55 students using in quantitative research. The result of data analysis proved that the equation of regression Y= 4.165 + 0.250 (X1) + 0.010 (X2), whereas adjusted r-square 0.43 (43%) of continuity to play piano variable influenced the variable of ability to create the harmony of church songs, and 57% was by other factors that did not researched.