MUSIC 214 - Keyboard Skills for Music Majors 3

Number of Credits: 1
Keyboard Skills for Music Majors 3 is designed to give the music major the piano skills necessary for a career in music. Subjects studied are: sight reading, transposition, improvisation, harmonization, scale fingerings, arpeggio fingerings, and choral and instrumental score reading. It is recommended that students planning to transfer to a music program at a four-year college/university concurrently enroll in MUSIC 111 and MUSIC 113. (Fall & Spring Only) Three hours laboratory each week. One Credit. One billable hour.

Pre-requisite(s): MUSIC 115.
Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Learn to recognize and play all secondary dominant chords in major and minor keys (GE3, PG1, PG5)
Harmonize simple modulating melodies in all major and minor keys (GE3, GE5, PG1, PG5)
Perform piano compositions in three part form (GE3, GE5, PG1, PG5)
Perform piano compositions in rondo form (GE3, GE5, PG1, PG5)
Perform dominant seventh arpeggios in all keys (GE3, PG1, PG5)
Perform diminished seventh arpeggios in all keys (GE3, PG1, PG5)
Analyze short piano compositions for formal elements (GE3, PG 1, PG3, PG5)