MVK 2121 - Class Piano II

College of Fine Arts and Humanities

Credit(s): 1
Contact Hours: 32
Effective Term Fall 2015 (505)

Requisites

Prerequisite MVK 1111 with a minimum grade of C

Course Description

As a continuation of Class Piano I, this course is designed to prepare students to pass minimum piano proficiency requirements in music-major programs. There is special emphasis upon harmonization of melodies, improvisation, and sight reading. (Note: This course may be taken up to 3 times for a total of 3 credits.)

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will develop an understanding of sight reading skills by:
    1. identifying rhythmic patterns.
    2. maintaining an established tempo while performing.
    3. determining the succession of intervals.
    4. discerning rhythmic and melodic patterns at least one measure ahead.
    5. coordinating proper fingerings required for execution of a melodic pattern.
    6. recognizing inversions of chords, and use proper fingerings for each inversion.
    7. recognizing notes on upper, middle, and lower ledger lines.
    8. identifying octave markings.
    9. recognizing Italian musical terminology.
    10. observing musical expressive markings.
    11. identifying shifting meters.
    12. determining proper metric stress according to meter and phrase context.
    13. acknowledging appropriate phrasing.
    14. performing legato and staccato as indicated.
    15. playing staccato or detached in one hand and legato in the other.
  2. The student will demonstrate improvisational skills by:
    1. providing a harmonization of an improvised melody.
    2. improvising a melodic pattern within the structure of a given chord progression.
    3. dividing and subdividing the given beat.
    4. providing various forms of harmonic accompaniment patterns such as alberti bass, waltz bass, arpeggiated bass, or broken blocked-chord bass.
    5. identifying antecedent and consequent phrase relationships.
    6. identifying period and double period structure.
    7. improvising a melody which contains an antecedent and consequent phrase structure.
  3. The student will develop technical facility necessary for performance of intermediate repertoire by:
    1. performing triad arpeggios two octaves, hands separately.
    2. performing dominant and diminished seventh chord arpeggios two octaves, hands separately.
    3. performing chords with proper fingerings in root, first inversion, and second inversion positions.
    4. performing chords of major, minor, diminished, and augmented qualities.
    5. performing double note patterns especially in intervals of thirds and sixths.
    6. demonstrating the ability to play passages containing five finger patterns in all keys.
    7. demonstrating ability to perform octaves with proper legato fingering.
    8. properly executing trill, turns, and mordents.
    9. observing phrase structure in repertoire.
    10. observing expressive markings in repertoire.
    11. memorizing repertoire.
    12. observing relaxation and flexibility of forearm and wrist movement.
    13. demonstrating independence of the fingers.
  4. The student will demonstrate the ability to harmonize melodies requiring primary and secondary triads by:
    1. performing common tone chord progressions of I-IV-I-V-I in all positions.
    2. performing common tone chord progressions using I-IV-I-V7-I, I-IV-ii6-V7-I, I-IV-ii, -V7-vi in all positions.
    3. identifying chord qualities built on each degree on the major scale.
    4. identifying chord qualities built on each degree of the minor scale.
    5. performing all positions of any major, minor, diminished, and augmented triad.
    6. performing all positions of dominant and diminished seventh chords.
    7. determining harmonic basis for a melody.
    8. establishing a harmonic rhythm for a given melody.
    9. determining a suitable accompaniment pattern for a given melody.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 8/84 Reviewed C&I 10/23/90 3 YR C&I Review 8/94. C & I 11/25/97; DBT 12/15/97 Effective Session I, 1998-99. 3 Year Review 2007. C&I Approval: 06/08/2004, BOT Approval: 07/27/2004, Effective Term: Fall 2004 (340).
C&I Approval: 11/21/2014, BOT Approval: 02/17/2015, Effective Term: Fall 2015 (505)

Related Programs

  1. Music (MUSIC-TR) (670) (Active)
  2. Music Education (MUSICED-TR) (670) (Active)