KSMUS 111-112 — Keyboard Skills I

2 credits per semester
Fall and Spring
Faculty

This course develops facility and musicianship skills at the keyboard. Areas under study include realization of figured bass lines with a given soprano; harmonization of simple chorale melodies; composition of simple harmonic progressions; introductions to alto, tenor, and soprano clefs using two-, three-, and four-part exercises and repertoire; and transposition of 19th-century lieder up and down half-steps and whole-steps. Required of all keyboard majors.