Course Abstract Details
MUSIC-214, Keyboard Skills for Music Majors 3
Credits: 1
Course Description
MUSIC-214, Keyboard Skills for Music Majors 3, is designed to give the music major the piano skills necessary for a career in music. Subjects studied are: sight reading, transposition, improvisation, harmonization, scale fingerings, arpeggio fingerings, and choral and instrumental score reading. It is recommended that students planning to transfer to a music program at a four-year college/unive+D490rsity concurrently enroll in MUSIC-111 and MUSIC-113. Prerequisite: MUSIC-115. Three hours laboratory each week. One credit. One billable hour.
Course Objectives and Grading Information
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. learn to recognize and play all secondary dominant chords in major and minor keys (GE 3, PG 1, PG 5)
2. harmonize simple modulating melodies in all major and minor keys (GE 3, GE 5, PG 1, PG 5)
3. perform piano compositions in three part form (GE 3, GE 5, PG 1, PG 5)
4. perform piano compositions in rondo form (GE 3, GE 5, PG 1, PG 5)
5. perform dominant seventh arpeggios in all keys (GE 3, PG 1, PG 5)
6. perform diminished seventh arpeggios in all keys (GE 3, PG 1, PG 5)
7. analyze short piano compositions for formal elements (GE 3, PG 1, PG 3, PG 5)
Learning Goals
The abbreviations in parentheses represent Learning Goals which have been identified for this course and program of study:
