MUSC 2160 Class Piano IV
- Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
- Department: Music
- Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
- Prerequisites: MUSC 2150 w/ a minimum grade of C- or instructor approval
- Semesters Offered: Spring
- Semester Approved: Spring 2025
- Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2029
- End Semester: Fall 2030
- Optimum Class Size: 10
- Maximum Class Size: 15
Course Description
This course completes the Class Piano sequence for music majors and culminates with the piano proficiency exam. This course also reinforces basic concepts of musical improvisation. (Additional fee required)
Justification
This course concludes the music major's progress toward piano proficiency, which is a requirement for all National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) accredited institutions. Similar courses are offered at other NASM accredited institutions in Utah and throughout the country.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate technical proficiency at the piano, including scales, arpeggios, and chord progressions.
- Students will play repertoire at an intermediate to advanced level with proficiency.
- Students will sight read short compositions at an intermediate level
Course Content
This course will draw from the following skill building areas:
Score reading - vocal and instrumental
Repertoire - performance in recital of piano repertoire from memory
Transposition - reading transposing instrument parts at the piano
Sight reading - reading of repertoire pieces at an intermediate level
Technique - fingering, facility, pedaling, phrasing, expression and articulation
Faculty instructors will assess student areas of strength and weakness to focus a practice regimen to skills needing improvement.
Key Performance Indicators: Students will have weekly playing tests in which they will demonstrate their piano proficiency 20 to 30%A final proficiency exam will be administered at the end of the semester that will determine if the student has met the piano proficiency requirements for a music major 10 to 20%Students will perform repertoire selections from memory in a class recital 30 to 40%Students will be graded on class participation and attendance. 20 to 25%Representative Text and/or Supplies: Class Piano Workbook by Marcie Smith; Bastien, Easy Piano Classics; Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises.Pedagogy Statement: This course will be primarily taught using active, hands on learning, demonstration, modeling and mentoring. Students will have access to specific feedback guiding their path of progress.
Instructional Mediums: Lecture
