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Effective Term:
Fall 2024

Course Number:
MUS 192P
Course Title:
Class Piano II
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture Hours:
10
Lecture/Lab Hours:
20
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Continues development of piano techniques through a variety of contemporary and historical musical styles. Includes minor key chords, compound meter, performance, harmonization, commonly-used chord progressions and sight-reading. Recommended: concurrent enrollment in MUS 112, MUS 112C, and MUC 130B. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

This course is required for students who plan on majoring in music at a four-year institution and is strongly recommended for any student wishing to pursue studies in music theory. The course is open to all students.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Perform common chord progressions using seventh chords in major and minor keys.

  2. Demonstrate short major and minor key pieces which use beat divisions and longer in compound meters with a simple accompaniment.

  3. Demonstrate sight-reading and performing melodies that outline pentascales in major and minor keys that use beat subdivisions and longer in simple meter, and beat divisions and longer in compound meter.

  4. Perform positions and inversion of major- and minor-key seventh chords.

  5. Harmonize a short melody using primary triads, secondary triads and dominant seventh chords using chord labels.

Course Activities and Design

  • Practicing major and minor scales and arpeggios with prepared fingerings (separate hands, two octaves, ascending and descending)

  • Interpret chord symbols and play progressions using triads and seventh chords

  • Transpose short melodies using pentascales

  • Performing and analyzing harmonic cadences in major and minor keys

  • Reading choral/open scores

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Methods used to evaluate student progress and the criteria for assigning a course letter grade should be made clear by the instructor at the beginning of the course. Due to the fact that this course focuses on the performance of a musical instrument, the primary assessment method will be through applied keyboard exams and exercises.   Other assessment methods may be used, including:

Qualitative and/or quantitative examinations
Homework assignments
Listening assignments
Concert reports
Research project
Class participation

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  • Triads in minor keys

    • Arpeggios, hand-over-hand, ascending and descending

    • Chord labels

  • Seventh chord qualities and commonly found inversions

  • Compound meter (12/8, 9/8, 6/8)

  • Cut time

  • Common chord progressions using triads and seventh chords

  • Harmonic cadences

  • Chord voicing

  • Choral score reading