EXAM CONTENT. 2. Technique: Play the required technical drill in the following major and minor keys: Keys of C, G, D, A.

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1 MUS 141-Keyoard Skills I Credit Exam Instructions 1 Exam must e completed prior to the eginning of the semester the course is offered Please have everything worked out efore scheduling your exam If you need assistance, please see a memer of the piano faculty or a piano graduate assistant 3 You must score a C or etter on each section of the exam to pass EXAM CONTENT 1 Aural Playack: a Students will e required to demonstrate the aility to playack a series of I, IV, V triads y ear in the following major and minor keys: Keys of C, G, D, A Students will e required to demonstrate the aility to playack a tune in -finger position y ear in the same keys as aove Technique: Play the required technical drill in the following major and minor keys: Keys of C, G, D, A 3 Reading: Prepare all the examples in this document You will e expected to play with fluency, using correct notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations Good fingering practices should e oserved 4 Repertoire: Choose and prepare one of the pieces from this list: Etude y Beyer Village Dance y Heinrich Wohlfardt Allegretto y Reinagle You will e expected to play with fluency, using correct notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations Good fingering practices should e oserved Harmonization: Rising Sun Blues Play this tune with the right hand and "realize" the chord symols y playing them with the left hand using one of the suggested voicings 6 Improvisation: Chord Tones of the I IV V Prepare oth examples Using the assigned rhythm pattern, improvise a RH melody consisting of the designated triad tones Play the root of the chord with your LH on the downeat of each measure Score Reading: Prepare all three examples Be ale to play all three parts simultaneously, and all cominations of two parts

2 MUS 141 Credit Exam - Technique Pentascales with Primary Triads Play this technical study in the keys of C, D, A, B, E α, Bα, F Major and Minor C Major I IV I V I V I C Minor α α α Reminder! In minor keys, the V chord is major α α α µ µ i iv i V i V i α α α µ µ α α α

3 MUS 141Credit Exam: Reading Prepare all the examples in this document You will e expected to play with fluency, the correct notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations Good fingering practices should e oserved 1 ε Ε ε 3 Ε ο, α α α α Ο 3 1 ο

4 ε Ε Ε 6 ο ε Ο ϖ Reading MUS 141

5 MUS 141 Credit Exam: Harmonization Rising Sun Blues Play this melody with the right hand and realize the written chords y playing triads with the left hand Use one of the left hand chord voicings provided elow, or create your own C D American Traditional F There is a house in New Or - leans they C E ϖ E call the Ris - ing Sun, It s 9 C D F een the ruin of many poor souls, and 13 E ϖ me, O God, for one Suggested Chord Voicings - Root Position Triads Voicing 1: Root Position Blocked Chords C ϖ ϖ Voicing : Root Position Broken Chords C

6 MUS 141 Credit Exam: Improvisation Using the assigned rhythm pattern, improvise a RH melody consisting only of the designated triad chord tones Play the root of the chord with your LH on the downeat of each measure Practice oth examples D Major C Minor I V V I IV I V I α α α i V V i iv i V i

7 MUS 141 Credit Exam : Open Score Reading Prepare all three examples Be ale to play all three parts simultaneously, and all cominations of two parts Play using two hands Part 1 Reading 1 Part Part 3 Part 1 Α 1 Reading Part Α 1 Part 3 1 ϖ ϖ Part 1 Reading 3 Part Part 3 Α

8 Repertoire: Serious and Humorous Op 101, No 60 Ferdinand Beyer Calm 1 p 1 Fine 9 A little more lively 1 f 13 f 1 DC al Fine

9 Repertoire: Allegretto 1 4 Short and Easy Pieces Alexander Reinagle # # # # Allegretto 4 f- p # # # # 9 # # # # F 4 13 # # f # # 1 *Originally in C Major

Repertoire: Village Dance Heinrich Wohlfahrt Allegro 4 3

Week 5, Unit 5: Review

Week 5, Unit 5: Review Day 1 1. Discuss objectives for the week (p. 66). 2. Introduce Playing Major, Augmented, Minor and Diminished Chords (p. 67). 3. Introduce Playing Triads of the Key and Inversions (p. 67). 4. Introduce