MUS -Keyoard Skills II Credit Exam Instructions Exam must e completed prior to the eginning of the semester the course is offered Please have everything worked out efore scheduling your exam If you need assistance, please see a memer of the piano faculty or a piano graduate assistant You must score a C or etter on each section of the exam to pass EXAM CONTENT Technique: a Play the required technical drill in the following major and minor keys: F, C, G, D, A Play the following major and minor scales ( forms) One octave, Hands Together i C, G, D, A, E Major and Minor Reading: Prepare all the examples in this document You will e expected to play with fluency, using correct notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations Good fingering practices should e oserved Repertoire: Choose and prepare one of the pieces from this list: Transcendental Waltz y Chan Kiat Lim Bagatelle y Anton Diaelli Simple Reminiscence y Chan Kiat Lim Crossing Through Trouled Waters y Susanna Garcia Etude, Op 777, No y Carl Czerny Mazurka y Cornelius Gurlitt You will e expected to play with fluency, using correct notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations Good fingering practices should e oserved Harmonization: Largo y Antonín Dvořák Realize Largo with the given chord progression When you see a chord written with a slash, you are eing asked to play in a specific inversion F/C means that you will play an F chord with C in the ottom voice (nd inversion) Print out the worksheet so that you can write out your arrangement Improvisation: Waltz Style Improvise a melody over the given accompaniment Your melody should harmonize with the chord progression Play with two hands 6 Score Reading a Open score: Prepare all three examples Be ale to play all three parts simultaneously, and all cominations of two parts Chorale: Wiegenlied y Brahms 7 Transposition: Play each example in concert pitch
Credit Exam MUS : Technique Keys of F, C, G, D, A Major and Minor C Major I V 7 V 7 I IV V 7 I C Minor Reminder! The melody uses the melodic minor scale µ µ i V 7 V 7 i iv V 7 i µ µ
Credit Exam MUS : Major Minor Scales Keys of C, G, D, A, E Major and Minor ( forms) One Octave - Hands Together All the keys on this list utilize the same fingering pattern The circled fingerings designate coinciding finger numers C Major C Natural Minor C Harmonic Minor µ µ µ µ C Melodic Minor µ µ µ µ
MUS Credit Exam: Reading Prepare all the examples in this document You will e expected to play with fluency, the correct notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations Good fingering practices should e oserved Cantaile Ε ο π α α Allegretto 6 7 6 7 Ο ƒ Giocoso ο Ε 7 7 Andante Ε Ι ο
MUS Credit Exam - Reading α α Allegro ε α α µ 7 6 Ε 7 Semplice ο Con rio 7 Ο Ι Ι Ι Ι Ι Ι ε, Moderato, 8 Ε,
Largo C MUS Credit Exam: Harmonization "Largo" From the New World Symphony Realize "Largo" with the given chord progression When you see a chord written with a slash, you are eing asked to play in a specific inversion F/C means that you will play an F chord with C in the ottom voice (nd inversion) C F/C G/D C C D m G7/B C F G F F G F F C/E F F C/E F 9 C C F/C G/B C/G A m D m/f G7 C/G D m/f G7 Ι C
MUS Credit Exam: Improvisation Improvise a melody over the given accompaniment Your melody should harmonize with the chord progression Play with two hands D A 7 A 7 A 7 A 7 D 9 G D A 7 D G D A 7 D D
MUS Credit Exam: Open Score Reading Prepare all three examples Be ale to play all three parts simultaneously, and all cominations of two parts Play using two hands Reading Part Part Part Moderato ε Α ε ε Reading Part Part Part Α Cantaile Ο Ο Ο ε ε ε Reading Part Part Part Α α α α α α α Largo Ε Ε Ε
# # # # p Andante Gu Lul MUS Credit Exam: Score Reading Chorale Reading j J - ten A - end, gut' Nacht, mit Ro - sen e - dacht, mit - - la - y and good night, with Ro - ses e - dight, With - Wiegenlied (Lullay) j J Johannes Brahms arr Garcia 6 # # # # Näg Li - lein e Steck, schlupf' un - ter die Deck! Mor - gen - lies o'er spread, is a - ies wee ed Lay thee 0 # # # # früh, down wenns now Gott and will, rest, werst May du thy wie slum - der ge - weckt Mor - gen - er e lessed Lay thee # # # # früh, down wenns now Gott and will, rest, werst May du they wie slum - der ge - - er e weckt lessed
MUS Credit Exam: Transposition: Bα, E α, A, and F Instruments Play each example elow in concert pitch Fingerings written aove the score indicate the right hand Fingerings written elow the score indicate the left hand Tpt in Bα α µ A Sx in E α Cl in A α α Hn in F,,,,,,,, µ,,,,,
Repertoire: Crossing Through Trouled Waters Moderato 8 6 r LH r LH r simile Susanna Garcia r 8 6 p r r n r r n 9 r n r π r n r F r n r n r rit, U U f
Repertoire: Étude, Op 777, No Carl Czerny 8 6 8 6 Allegro vivace J J p ( ) J J J J J J J J 9 J J J J J J J J
Étude 7 f J J J dim p cresc 8 f * Originally in C Major
Repertoire: Bagatelle Anton Diaelli Allegretto qk»ªº 8 6 f-p 8 6 P F # 9 f J p J f 009 All Rights Reserved
Repertoire: Mazurka Cornelius Gurlitt Moderato F P # # # # f 9 cresc # # dim # J F #
c c p P Moderato con espressione - - cresc Chan Kiat Lim F # 9 p π - - cresc - f J 009 All Rights Reserved P u U π Repertoire: Simple Reminiscence
Repertoire: Transcendental Waltz Chan Kiat Lim P j - j j n n 9 F j - j n n - P
Transcendental Waltz 7 P J F J f J - J U p n u J J U π molto espressivo * rit 9 - P a tempo n rit J * 009 All Rights Reserved