Document Type
Syllabus
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Course Description
Secondary private piano lessons are lessons (30 minutes or 1 hour in length) at a scheduled time once a week. Lessons include sight reading, scales/arpeggios/chords and other forms of exercises; work on piano solo selections, depending on each student’s need and abilities. Repertoire studied will be primarily classical literature.
Recommended Citation
Rachford, Natalia, "MUS PNO-C Secondary Applied Piano Lessons Rachford Spring 2024" (2024). All Course Syllabi. 501, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/records_syllabi/501
Student Outcomes
During this course students will further develop their piano skills in order to creatively use those skills in their postgraduate careers, engage with audiences , their students and community. Students will continue to improve in: ● interpreting and performing elementary or early intermediate level solo and ensemble repertoire ● playing elementary and more complex chord progressions in different keys ● improvising accompaniments on a given melody ● transposing a melody line down and up by various intervals ● learning to accompany voice or solo instrument ● sight-reading an elementary level keyboard work ● reading 2-4 parts from the open score