Piano Lab 4 - Honors
This course is rigorous and requires advanced technical and interpretive skills. Students mus play pieces in key signatures containing numerous flats and sharps, complex rhythms, unusual meters, and subtle dynamics. Repertoire represents different styles, cultures and musical periods. They must also be able to play major and minor scales at 100-140 mm and all major, minor, diminished 7th, dominant 7th and augmented arpeggios. they are expected to perform a minimum of two times a semester, and prepare a paper on one or more composers. Students at honors levels three and four may also accompany other instrumentalists or singers, choral ensembles, play in chamber music ensembles, play in the pit orchestra for one of the yearly musicals or play in one of the jazz bands. Sight-reading level four materials and one and a half hours daily of outside practice is expected.