Courses offered by the Piano Department are listed below.
Please check the Schedule of Classes for course offerings each semester and consult individual course entries in this schedule for information on course prerequisites and corequisites.
For information about courses related to performance (lessons, studio masterclass, recitals, etc.), please see the following link.
Methods and materials for teaching individuals and classes of both children and adults. Two hours of demonstration and two hours of teaching each week. Intended for students who have successfully completed the upper-division examination.
Literature for stringed keyboard instruments from the age of Bach and his contemporaries through the early romantics. Historical, stylistic, formal, and aesthetic features.
Historical, stylistic, formal, and aesthetic features.
This course is eligible for deferred (R) grading.
Discussion of historical, stylistic, formal, and aesthetic aspects of a period and its leading composers; performance of a wide range of representative works. Baroque, Pre-Classical, and Classical.
Discussion of historical, stylistic, formal, and aesthetic aspects of a period and its leading composers; performance of a wide range of representative works. Late Classical and Early Romantic.
Discussion of historical, stylistic, formal, and aesthetic aspects of a period and its leading composers; performance of a wide range of representative works. Romantic.
Discussion of historical, stylistic, formal, and aesthetic aspects of a period and its leading composers; performance of a wide range of representative works. Twentieth-Century.
P: A passing grade in P141, or the successful completion of the keyboard proficiency, or permission of instructor.
Class piano for beginning piano students who are not music majors.
Piano class for non-keyboard music majors, as part of preparation for the keyboard proficiency examination and/or fulfillment of keyboard requirements for their degree. Performance examinations evaluate poise, facility and musicianship at the keyboard.
Class piano (second-semester level) for students who are not music majors.
Piano class for non-keyboard music majors, as part of preparation for the keyboard proficiency examination and/or fulfillment of keyboard requirements for their degree. Performance examinations evaluate poise, facility and musicianship at the keyboard.
Class piano (third-semester level).
Piano class for BM Voice students, as part of preparation for the keyboard proficiency examination. Performance examinations evaluate poise, facility and musicianship at the keyboard.
Class piano (fourth-semester level).
Meets the keyboard proficiency requirement with a grade of B or higher. The option of P715 is not available to majors in collaborative piano, guitar, harp, historical performance, jazz, music theory, organ, piano, or MS Music Education students.
