WNC Catalog 2007-2008: Music 111
Course Description and Outline |
MUS 111: Piano Class I
| Credits |
3 |
| Schedule of Classes |
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Schedule History
(See when this course was offered over the last 3 years) |
| Academic Discipline |
Music
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| Academic Division |
Communications and Fine Arts |
| Prerequisites |
none |
| Transfer Information |
Courses with numbers 100 to 299: This course is designed to apply toward a WNC degree and/or transfer to other schools within the Nevada System of Higher Education, depending on the degree chosen and other courses completed. It may transfer to colleges and universities outside Nevada. For information about how this course can transfer and apply to your program of study, please contact a counselor. |
2007-2008 | I : Catalog Course Description |
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| Introduces the piano, including instruction in note reading, technique, theory and easy repertoire. Students work in a laboratory setting, each using their own electronic piano. |
| II : Course Objectives |
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By the completion of the class, the students should, with 75% accuracy:
- Be able to read music in three major keys: C,F,G
- Know how to play two octave major scales in the key of C
- Play I, IV, V7 keyboard harmony chords in C,F,G
- Coordinate melodies with I,IV, and V7 harmonies.
- Use the damper pedal
- Identify intervals by number
- Create major scales starting on any note of the piano
- Identify and write sharp and flat major key signatures
- Transpose
- Perform rhythms using whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth and sixteenth notes.
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| III : Course Linkage |
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| Linkage of course to educational program mission and at least one educational program outcome. |
Students should:
1. Know the subject matter appropriate to the musical theater degree.
2. Succeed at transfer institutions
3. Understand the importance of cultural traditions, diversity, and ethics in the
modern world.
4. Have an understanding of fine arts or performing arts.
Personal Development
• develop creative capacities |
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