2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Apr 28, 2024  
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MUSC 183 Advanced Class Piano (1 credit)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 122

Prerequisite MUSC 182  with at least a 1.5 grade or instructor permission.

Course Description
To increase music reading ability and keyboard technical skills. Prepare students for the piano proficiency test required for a music degree in a four-year institution.

Course Content
A. Advanced piano repertoire.
B. Music theory (e.g. triads and inversions, seventh chords and inversions, scales, and arpeggios).
C. Harmonizing melodies from a lead sheet.
D. Music interpretation

Student Outcomes
1. Play the Bb-major, Eb-major, and Ab-major scales, arpeggios, and chords.

2. Play the g-minor, c-minor, and f-minor scales, arpeggios, and chords.

3. Demonstrate sight-reading skills.

4. Perform four solo pieces in a recital for fellow students.

5. Memorize two piano pieces for performance.

6. Harmonize a melody from a lead sheet, using triads and inversions.

7. Identify and construct seventh chords and their inversions.

8. Interpret music in performance.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful and justifiable conclusions.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20



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