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

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

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

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 3 1 3 1 Ε ε 3 Ε ο, α α 3 1 4 α α Ο 3 1 ο

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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

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

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

Repertoire: Serious and Humorous Op 101, No 60 Ferdinand Beyer 4 3 4 3 Calm 1 p 1 Fine 9 A little more lively 1 f 13 f 1 DC al Fine

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