Keyboard Skills 3+ (128-3-3)

Instructors

Susan R Osborn

Meeting Info

RCMA 4-138 Keyboard Lab: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 11:50AM

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.