Piano Emphasis Area

Requirements

1. Students must show demonstrable knowledge in all major and minor scales and tonic arpeggios, parallel motion, and four octaves in moderately rapid tempo.
2. Students should be able to perform Bach Two- and Three-Part Inventions; compositions corresponding in difficulty to Beethoven Sonata, Opus 14, No. 1; Mozart Fantasia in D Minor; Chopin Nocturne, Opus 44, No. 1; Schubert Impromptu, Opus 90, No. 4; and Debussy Arabesques.

Required Courses

  Foreign Language French/German 110, 120            10
  Conservatory 101-402 Applied Study                 32
  Conservatory 114, 115, 214, 215 Piano
    Sight-Reading I-IV                                4
  Ensemble (Eight Semesters)*                         8
  English 300-level Writing Intensive Course          3
  Conservatory 325-326 Piano Pedagogy I, II           4
  Conservatory 325A-326A Piano Pedagogy -
    Supervised Teaching I, II                         2
  Conservatory 376, 377, 476, 477 Accompanying I-IV   6
  Conservatory 427 18th Century Counterpoint          2
  Conservatory 437 Computer Literacy for
    Music Teachers                                    3
  Conservatory 361-362-461-462 Piano Literature I, 
   II, III, IV                                        8
  Electives                                           13