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
Potential Methods
A. Performance
B. Instructor observation and feedback
C. Class participation
D. Self-evaluation
E. Aural exam
F. Written assignments
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