MUSC 161 - First Year Class Piano

Credits: (1)

Instructional Method: Three hours laboratory.
Prerequisites: (MUSC 161) Audition and music reading ability and (MUSC 162) Completion of MUSC 161 with grade of “C” or better.
Keyboard skills at the first and second basic levels is offered for non-keyboard music majors and minors. This course includes sight reading, analysis, memorization and performance of music; technical skills to develop a “feel” for the topography of the keyboard: harmonization and transposition of melodic lines; playing by “ear” and other creative activities, including composition and improvisation.