| Keyboard Keyboard Sequence Keyboard Skills 1 Keyboard Skills 2 Piano Class 1 Piano Class 2 Keyboard Theory 1 Keyboard Theory 2 ________________________________________________________________________________ Keyboard Sequence Familiarity with the keyboard is fundamental to any understanding of music theory and music history. For students with little or no exposure to the piano the four semester keyboard sequence comprises Keyboard Skills 1 and 2 followed by Piano Class 1 and 2. For non-piano majors with some keyboard experience the four semester keyboard sequence comprises Piano Class 1 and 2 followed by Keyboard Theory 1 and 2. Keyboard Theory is an adjunct to the information taught in Harmony & Counterpoint and aims to reinforce this information at the keyboard. Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 1 Bela Bartok Boosey & Hawkes, 1987 ISBN: 9790060080012 TBC BOOK OF SCALES, ARPEGGIOS, AND CADENCES |
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______________________________________________________________________ back to top Keyboard Skills 2 MU162 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Keyboard Skills 1 or placement Course Objectives • sightreading • figured bass realization using triads • 2 octave major scales and arpeggios (F, A flat, G sharp, E flat, D sharp, B flat, A sharp) • 2 octave minor scales and arpeggios (f, a flat, g sharp, e flat, d sharp, b flat, a sharp) • constructing cadences • adding non-chord tones to a chorale melody • constructing seventh chords in all inversions • constructing simple harmonic progressions Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 2 Bela Bartok Boosey & Hawkes, 1987 ISBN: 9790060080029 CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES David Ledbetter (Editor) Oxford University Press, 1990 ISBN: 9780193184336 MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 1 TBC BOOK OF SCALES, ARPEGGIOS, AND CADENCES see MU161 Keyboard Skills 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Piano Class 1 MU173 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Keyboard Skills 2 or placement Course Objectives • sightreading • score reading (string quartets) • improvisation • transposition • individually assigned solo literature • figured bass exercises Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com MIKROKOSMOS VOLUME 3 Bela Bartok Boosey & Hawkes, 1987 ISBN: 9790060080036 TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 2 CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Piano Class 2 MU174 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Piano Class 1 or placement Course Objectives • sightreading • score reading (including transposed parts) • transposition • individually assigned solo literature • exercises in fugue and canon Textbooks CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2 MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 3 TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK see MU173 Piano Class 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Keyboard Theory 1 MU261 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Piano Class 2 or placement Course Objectives • sightreading • playing from the alto clef • figured bass realization using sevenths, passing tones, and neighbor tones • non-modulating harmonization • transposition by step Textbooks Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com MIKROKOSMOS VOLUME 4 Bela Bartok Boosey & Hawkes, 1987 ISBN: 9790060080029 371 FOUR-PART CHORALES Johann Sebastian Bach Alfred Publishing Company, 1985 ISBN: 9780193184336 CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2 TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK see MU173 Piano Class 1 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Keyboard Theory 2 MU262 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Keyboard Theory 1 or placement Course Objectives • introduction to score reading (song) • playing from the tenor clef • figured bass realization of using suspensions and chromaticism • modulating harmonization • transposition to closely related keys Textbooks MIKROKOSMOS VOLUME 4 371 FOUR-PART CHORALES see MU262 Keyboard Theory 2 CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2 TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK see MU173 Piano Class 1 |
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