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Course Syllabus

Course: MUSC 2160

Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Music
Title: Class Piano IV

Semester Approved: Fall 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2024
End Semester: Summer 2025

Catalog 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)

Semesters Offered: Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0

Prerequisites: MUSIC 1150, MUSC 1160, MUSC 2150 or instructor approval

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. This outcome will be assessed through the piano proficiency examination, class participation, weekly playing tests, and class recitals.

Students will play repertoire at an intermediate to advanced level. This outcome will be assessed through the piano proficiency examination, class participation, weekly playing tests, and class recitals.

Students will sight read short compositions at an intermediate level This outcome will be assessed through the piano proficiency examination, class participation, weekly playing tests, and class recitals.


Content:
Score reading - vocal and instrumentalRepertoire - performance in recital of piano repertoire from memoryTransposition - reading transposing instrument parts at the pianoSight reading - reading of repertoire pieces at an intermediate levelTechnique - fingering, facility, pedaling, phrasing, expression and articulation

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 also 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.

Instructional Mediums:
Lecture

Maximum Class Size: 15
Optimum Class Size: 10