MUSI 235 - Keyboard Skills III

Credit(s): 1

Prerequisite(s): MUSI 136 or equivalent.
This course focuses on the advancement of functional piano skills, enabling students to cope with practical situations at the keyboard. Technique, music reading skills in multiple clefs, harmonization, transposition of melodies using primary as well as secondary harmonies, improvisational treatment of familiar melodies, along with rehearsal of solo and collaborative repertoire are included. (Fall Semester)

Course Learning Outcomes

Play I-vi-IV-ii-V-I in any major key and i-VI-iv-V-I in any minor key.
Play pentascales moving up by half steps using pivot chords.
Play all harmonic minor scales and arpeggios hands together, three octaves, MM=88+.
Play chromatic scale hands separately, starting on any note, M.M. = 76+.
Sight-read easy vocal and instrumental accompaniments.
Sight-read a melody in alto and tenor clefs.
Sight-read a homophonic open-score choral, string, or band excerpt.
Play a polyphonic open-score choral, string, or band excerpt.
Transpose wind parts to concert pitch and play at sight.
Harmonize a melody at sight using primary and secondary chords with varied accompaniment styles.
Improvise a basic two-hand vamp using a given chord sequence or chord names or symbols.
Play a basic accompaniment with a soloist.