MUS 214 - Keyboard Skills 2 (First Term)

2 Credit(s)

Course develops piano skills essential for all music majors. Keyboard Skills 2 focuses on chromatic harmony. Skills include the performance of scales and arpeggios, chord progressions with modulations (including altered chords) with corrective voice leading and resolution, harmonization, transposition, improvisation, realization of figured bass, sight-reading of two-part piano texture. Designed to be taken with MUS 211 and MUS 224 concurrently.

Prerequisite: MUS 113, MUS 116, and MUS 129
Corequisite: MUS 211 and MUS 224

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

Demonstrate keyboarding skills with accuracy for all major and minor scales using both hands together (CLO 1.2, 5.2, 5.3)
Demonstrate correct voice leading and resolution, harmonization, and use of a variety of cadences in complex chord progressions that modulate at a basic level (CLO 1.3, 1.5, 3.1, 5.1)
Demonstrate realization of complex figured bass and lead sheet notation at a basic level (CLO 1.2, 1.5, 3.1, 5.3)

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