Keyboard Skills 3+ (128-3-2)
Instructors
Karen Chih-Pah Kan-Walsh
847/491-3886
Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, Evanston, IL 60208
Office Hours: By appointment
Meeting Info
RCMA 4-136 Keyboard Lab: Tues, Thurs 9:00AM - 9:50AM
Overview of class
This is the 3rd quarter of a year-long sequence for students who have had 1-4 years of piano experience.
Registration Requirements
Successful completion of Level 2+ and a permission number. Restricted to music majors.
Learning Objectives
To be able to harmonize melodies with secondary dominants from Roman numeral- or letter-chord symbols, sight read with confident projection of dynamics, phrasing and other musical details indicated in the score, read accompaniments, successfully apply principles of reducing when sight reading, continue technical development, learn and perform solo-piano repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries, transpose, and construct creative projects.
Teaching Method
Demonstration, individual and group activities, class demonstrations.
Evaluation Method
Point system evaluating class demonstrations, prepared and at-sight activities, performance, improvement, participation and exams.