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PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  	Effective Term:  Full Academic Year 2017/2018

MUP   264	Studio Instruction: Piano III (Major)          

    Credit Hours:   2.00                         Lecture Periods: 0.00    	Lab Periods: 0.50  

Description:
Continuation of MUP 174.  Private weekly instrumental lessons.  Includes further development of performance skills and participation in student recitals and jury exams.  

Prerequisites(s): MUP 174.
Corequisite(s): MUS 223 and 224. 

Course Learning Outcomes:   
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1.	Develop a continued emphasis on proper physical characteristics for playing of one’s instrument.
2.	Utilize a concentrated practicing and mental approach for playing one’s instrument.
3.	Expand upon, and the continuation of the student’s musicianship.
4.	Demonstrate playing of all major and minor scales by memory, and minor scales to be played in their natural minor form with a variety of articulations used.
5.	Demonstrate awareness of intervallic relationships and relate them to their instrument. 
6.	Develop increased awareness of rhythmic subtleties.
7.	Develop increased awareness of chordal outline and proper resolution of said lines.
8.	Develop increased awareness of music literature and its interpretation for performance.

Outline:
I.	Continued Mastery of Rudimental Patterns
II.	Continued Mastery of Sound Production on a Variety of Percussion Instruments
III.	Accurate Rhythmic Interpretation
IV.	Interpretation of Linear Lines
V.	Literature That is Listed as Etudes in Nature
VI.	Literature That is Listed as Excerpts in Nature
VII.	Literature That is Listed as Soloistic in Nature
VIII.	History and Theory to be Taught Relevant to Literature Being Covered