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ScribdTranslationsCOURSE : FUNCTIONAL PIANO 1
TRANSLATION : KEYBOARD INTRO 1
SIGLA : MUC717
CREDITS : 04
MODULES : 01
REQUIREMENTS : ACADEMIC UNIT 70
CHARACTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINE : MUSIC
I. DESCRIPTION
It is a theoretical and practical course aimed at increasing the musical training of the students using
the keyboard as a tool for musical training. This program has limited its foray into the
most essential acquisitions of musical training. Thus, skills that are excluded are those that
are related to the proper training in piano. For the optimal condensation of the topics, the program
contemplating the division of them into the areas of tonal knowledge; Skill on the Instrument and Reading,
both in the first and in the second semester of the year.
II. OBJECTIVES
Generals
1. Provide the student with the necessary knowledge for mastering harmony on the instrument.
thus facilitating a tool for practice and fundamental analysis during these years of training
basic.
2. Know, practice, and learn the correct way to play the keyboard and its possibilities of use
for research and creative performance.
Specific
1. To know, practice, and learn the correct way to play the keyboard and its possibilities of use for the
research and creative performance.
2. Know, apply, and touch on the basic precepts of harmony in four voices in the piano format.
such as, the behavior of harmonic functions and the principles related to the conduction of the
voices expressed through the keyboard.
3. Play by reading on the keyboard with adequate comprehension, technical, and musical performance of the
elements of the musical code taught, using simple repertoire of different musical styles.
III. CONTENTS
1. Tonal knowledge.
1.1. Escalas Mayores de Do, Sol, Re, Fa.
1.2. Tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords.
1.3. Arpeggios of tonic, subdominant, and dominant.
1.4. Harmonic progressions, Cadences: authentic, plagal, and complete. Harmonic schemes that
involve I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, in the ground state.
2. Skill on the instrument.
2.1. Scales. Introduction to pentachords in the determined scales. Scale in the range of 8th with
different coordinations: parallel and opposite movement.
2.2. Chords. In root position, first and second inversions, without being contextualized in a
harmonic progression. Mastery of the concepts of State, Position, Species, Arrangement and
Degree.
2.3. Arpeggios, in root position, first and second inversion within the range of an octave: Major,
minor.
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2.4. Harmonic chains, Cadences: authentic, plagal, and plenum in positions of 8th, 3rd and
5th. Creation of harmonic schemes with main and secondary functions.
3. Reading.
3.1. Reading of repertoire related to the reviewed contents, with a minimum of 20 short pieces of
distinct texture.
IV. METHODOLOGY
- Theoretical and practical classes lasting one and a half hours, with a collective methodology, in a
room with a keyboard for each student.
- Practical demonstrations by the teacher.
V. EVALUATION
- Continuous review of technical progress through brief tests.
- Continuous review of reading progress through short tests.
- Continuous review of theoretical content through short tests.
- Management of tests with content accumulation.
- Final exam. The final grade for the course will be the average of the following grades:
Presentation note 60%
Exam score 40%
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Bartók, Bela Microcosmos I - II and III. U. S. A., Ed. Boosey & Hawkes, 1940.
Bastiene, James Sight Reading Level I - II - III - IV. San Diego, California. Ed.
Kjios West. 1976.
Burnam, Edna A dozen a day: Technical Exercises for the piano. Mini Book.
Kentucky, The Willis Music Company, 2002.
Clark, Frances. Musical Fingers. New Jersey, The new school of music study press,
1984, Vol. I and II.
Gray, Donald Scales and Arpeggios. New York/London, Boosey and Hawkes, s/f.
Heart, Henry Scales and exercises. New York/London, Schirmer’s., n.d.
Hindemith, Paul Traditional Harmony. Buenos Aires, Ed. Ricordi, 1944.
Morales, Soledad Harmony Manual
De Vito, Anton Chord Dictionary
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Kurtág, Gyorgy Games. Budapest, Ed. Musica Budapest, 1979, Vol. 1.
Sheftel, Paul Merry and Mellow. U. S. A., Alfred Publishing Co., 1986.
Sheftel, Paul Modules. U. S. A., Alfred Publishing Co., 1988.
Snell, Keith Scale Skills. U.S.A., Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 2000, Vol.
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