Functional keyboard skills for satisfying the piano proficiency requirement.
Athena Title
Piano Class I
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will demonstrate the following skills, perform prepared repertoire, including several selections from Bastien and Olson.
Students will demonstrate the following skills, perform prepared harmonization including several selections from tune sheet; must include: a. I - IV6/4 - V6/5 or V6 b. original key and transposed keys. c. accompanying ostinato, drones, and chord patterns. d. two-handed accompaniments.
Students will demonstrate the following skills, improvise examples from tune sheets and Bastien.
Students will demonstrate the following skills, sight-read short exercises from Bastien, including transposition and harmonization at sight.
Students will demonstrate the following skills, play five-tone scales in major and minor around the circle of fifths and chromatically. (Pentascales within major keys only and tetrachord scales and key signatures in all major keys).
Students will demonstrate the following skills, play major scales in the keys of C, G, D, A, E, B, F, D-flat, G-flat; two octaves, hands separately with correct fingering.
Topical Outline
PATTERNS FOR KEYBOARD TECHNIQUE A. Single Note Patterns 1. Pentascales a. major and minor (chromatically and around circle of fifths) b. within a key (major keys only) 2. Tetrachord scales (major key signatures around circle of fifths) 3. Major Scales: hands separately, two octaves a. C major group: C, G, D, A, E (Bastien, p. 193) b. black-key pattern group: B, F, D-flat, G-flat (Bastien, p. 193-94)
B. Chord Patterns 1. Root position triads within a key (major keys only) 2. Chord Progressions: I-V-I, I-V7-I, I-IV-I, I-IV-I-V(7)-I, (root position and nearest inversion), major and minor, around circle of fifths.
KEYBOARD ACTIVITIES A. Sight-reading B. Harmonization using primary triads C. Easy accompaniment patterns 1. ostinato and drone 2. chord patterns (2/4: rest chord, 3/4: rest chord-chord, for example) 3. two-handed accompaniments (examples in Bastien) D. Transposition: harmonizations and easy repertoire E. Improvisation to verse, rhythm patterns, and primary chord progressions
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Creativity & Innovation
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
