Descriptor Details

  • Descriptor Title
    Piano III
  • C-ID Number
    172
  • Units
    1
  • Hours
    0000
  • Date of Last Revision
    2/27/2025 09:49:26 AM PST

General Description

This course will allow students to refine and develop beginning keyboard skills. Piano technique, major and minor scales and arpeggios, sight-reading, expanded chord progressions, and harmonization and transposition skills are encountered in intermediate piano music.

Prerequisites

Music 171

Corequisites

No information provided

Advisories

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Content

Minimal topics:

  1. Chord progressions that involve primary and secondary triads in major and minor keys hands together.
  2. All major and minor scales and arpeggios in two octave, hands together.
  3. Harmonize and transpose melodies using primary and secondary chords.
  4. Perform pieces at the early intermediate level. 

Lab Activities

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Objectives

Objectives and Outcomes language based upon the above course content to be developed by individual programs within their local curriculum process.

Evaluation Methods

Including but not limited to written and performance quizzes and tests, and a concert report.

Textbooks

Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Lancaster, Renfrow

Descriptor Administration

  • Public Review Needed
    No
  • Next Descriptor Review
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  • Resubmission Requirements for Courses
    Descriptor changes were administrative only
  • Resubmission Deadline
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  • Comments

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  • Notes

    Finalized 7/5/17.

  • Keywords

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