Piano Lab 1
This course is designed for 9th grade students who have had prior successful musical experience in piano in middle school. The class focuses attention on piano literature, technique and music theory. Focus is placed on more advance theory: key signatures, circles of fifths, triads and seventh chords and inversions, and ear training. Focus is placed on careful, clean pedaling, developing fluency, articulation, sight reading, balance between melody and harmony and accurate interpretation of expression marks. Students play scales of three octaves in sixteenth notes at mm 90, and four octave arpeggios. Literature by composers such as Kabalevsky, Bartok, Kuhlau, Clementi and others is studied and performed. Artistic interpretation is stressed. Sight-reading level two materials and forty-five minutes daily of outside practice is expected.
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