Plan of Study – Piano Pedagogy

Note: A Semester Hour (s.h.) is a unit of academic credit representing an hour of class (such as lecture class) or three hours of laboratory work each week for an academic semester. Most courses are two, three or four semester hours.

Piano Pedagogy: Cert Achieve

Piano Pedagogy: Certificate of Achievement

Certificate Courses (Minimum of 33 semester hours required.)

MUAP1210 Piano (2 s.h.)

Study of keyboard theory, techniques and repertoire designed to meet needs of individual students.

MUAP1220 Piano (2 s.h.)

Study of keyboard theory, techniques and repertoire designed to meet needs of individual students.

MUAP2210 Piano (2 s.h.)

Study of keyboard theory, techniques and repertoire designed to meet needs of individual students.

MUAP2220 Piano (2 s.h.)

Study of keyboard theory, techniques and repertoire designed to meet needs of individual students.

MUS 1130 Theory I (3 s.h.)

Fundamental harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic practices of the 18th and 19th centuries, including major and minor keys, intervals, cadences, primary triads in root and inverted positions, through an integrated visual/aural/compositional approach. Must be taken concurrently with MUS 1140, Sight-singing and Ear Training I.

MUS 1140 Sight-singing and Ear Training I (1 s.h.)

Basic aural, visual, and vocal experiences in dictation and singing at sight: includes major and minor scalar and diatonic chordal outlines, rhythms in simple meter, and major and minor triads. Must be taken concurrently with MUS 1130, Theory I.

MUS 1330 Theory II (3 s.h.)

Continuation of Theory I, including secondary, diminished, and augmented triads, non-chord tones, melodic composition, and secondary dominants, through an integrated visual/aural/compositional approach. Must be taken concurrently with MUS 1340, Sight-singing and Ear Training II.

MUS 1340 Sight-singing and Ear Training II (1 s.h.)

Continuation of basic aural, visual, and vocal experiences in dictation and singing at sight; includes melodies constructed of primary triads, rhythms in compound meter, and major, minor, and diminished triads in inversion. Must be taken concurrently with MUS 1330, Theory II.

MUS 2130 Theory III (3 s.h.)

Continuation of Theory II, including fundamental harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic practices of the 18th and 19th centuries, including secondary chords, modulation, mode mixture, through an aural/visual/compositional approach. Must be taken concurrently with MUS 2140, Sight-singing and Ear Training III.

MUS 2140 Sight-singing and Ear Training III (1 s.h.)

A continuation of aural, visual, and vocal experiences in sight singing and dictation; includes modulations to closely related keys, compound intervals, rhythmic sub-divisions, chromatic chords. Must be taken concurrently with MUS 2130, Theory III.

MUS 3330 History of Music Literature I (3 s.h.)

Development of music from pre-Christian beginnings through the Baroque period with emphasis on music form, style, literature, and composers.

MUS 3340 History of Music Literature II (3 s.h.)

Development of music from the Classical period to the present with emphasis on musical form, style, literature, and composers.

MUS 3540 Piano Pedagogy I (2 s.h.)

Intensive study of methods and materials in piano teaching as applied to beginning and intermediate students.

MUS 3550 Piano Pedagogy II (2 s.h.)

Continuation of MUS 3540 as applied to the advanced student.

WRT 1010 College Composition I (3 s.h.)

Study and practice of strategies for academic writing, with a focus on writing and reading descriptive, narrative, and expository essays. Emphasis on writing as a process. Introduction to information literacy.