MLMUS 133-134 — Piano Literature I

2 credits per semester
Fall and Spring
Sharon Levy

Early keyboard music (through Mozart). An introduction to the repertory of the piano and the history of piano playing, with consideration of the challenges facing the modern pianist. The classes will explore the repertoire and associated performance practice through listening, score, and source study, reading projects, bibliography, and performance. Several workshop sessions will examine the concepts underlying the repertory, provide hands-on introductions to instrumental precursors and successors of the concert grand, and consider issues confronting the young pianists in the class. Required of all undergraduate Piano majors.