EVDIV 41 - Introduction to Keyboard Skills

Patrick Kreeger
This yearlong course continues to explore figured bass and analytical techniques at the keyboard. Alongside weekly exercises such as scales, arpeggios, harmonic reductions, clef-reading, and sight-reading, the course will guide students through a study of voice leading at the keyboard. Students will gain keyboard skills such as accompanying and improvising simple melodies, realizing figured bass, transposing songs, reducing textures, and reading scores in two (or more) parts in multiple clefs. Repertoire examples are mostly drawn from instrumental and vocal works between the 17th to 19th centuries, but students will also be invited to apply these analytical tools to musical selections of their choice. The course aims to help students achieve a deeper understanding of musical repertoire as well as a stronger foundation at the keyboard. Students may join in either fall or spring; however, spring placements are contingent on midyear vacancies. Prerequisites: Elements of Keyboard Skills and Introduction to Ear Training or equivalent. Placement application required unless pre-approved to enroll.

13 weeks; 0 credits

Mondays 5:30–7:30pm ET

January 22–April 29

In Person Only

$910 per semester

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