MUS 111 Keyboard Musicianship MUS 111 ScheduleMUS 111 SyllabusWilliam Wieland

Throughout the semester, I assign piano playing to reinforce music theory concepts. On Fridays I demonstrate the following week's assignment. On Mondays, I quickly check that everyone understands the assignment and can play some of it. In some cases we choose more challenging material. This is easiest and fastest to do in person, but you may also either schedule a Zoom meeting with me or submit a video before 5:00 pm on Friday. Finally, I evaluate your playing twice each semester, i.e. the MIDTERM and the FINAL.

Week 1 — I introduce all of this semester’s keyboard musicianship items.

Week 3 — Score Reading (3 staves): Learn either Jesu! Rex Admirabilis or Jesu, Salvator mundi. (Pianists learn O bone Jesu.)

Week 4 — Six-Four Chords: Learn the names of and be prepared to perform the cadential six-four, pedal six-four, arpeggiated six-four, and passing six-four in at least one key.

Week 5 & 6 — Major Key Vocal Warm-up: Memorize at least one.—but not the warm-up that you played last semester.
 — Major Triad Vocal Warm-up ( Major Triad Cheat Sheet and Major Triad Lookalikes )
 — 5-finger Pattern Vocal Warm-up ( 5-finger Pattern Cheat Sheet )
 — More Vocal Warm-ups and Even More Vocal Warm-ups (for more experienced pianists)

Weeks 8 & 9 — MIDTERM: Please perform what you can as soon as possible. You may perform any portion of your Keyboard Musicianship midterm for me any time before 5:00 pm on March 11. (You may perform any item for me once a day.)


Week 11 — Sing and Play: Sing a familiar song while playing chords with your right hand and a bass line with your left hand.

Week 12 — Student Choice

Week 13 — C Clefs: Prepare a piece from Music that includes C clefsbut not the tune that you played last semester.

Weeks 15 & 16 — FINAL: Please perform what you can as soon as possible. You may perform any portion of your Keyboard Musicianship final for me any time before 5:00 pm on the last day of class. (You may perform any item for me once a day.)


GRADES:
33⅓% Monday Quick Checks  — You score 100 points every week that you complete the quick check on time.
      After Friday at 5:00 pm, I deduct 10 points for every class day the quick check is late.
33⅓% Midterm
33⅓% Final

Each midterm and final item will be graded from 0–100 using the following rubric:
 100 points — substantially exceeded expectations 
  85 points — good performance
  70 points — satisfactory performance
  50 points — struggled, but managed to play
  0 points — utterly failed to perform