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Oct 23, 2026
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MUSC 1121 - Keyboard Skills for Majors I
Credits: 2
Catalog Description
Applies the concepts of MUSC 1116 and MUSC 1117 specifically to the keyboard. Class is two hours per week in keyboard lab developing skills in keyboard navigation, sight reading, scales, chord progressions, harmonizing and transposing. The first in a two-part course sequence (with MUSC 1122 ), this course prepares music majors and minors for required piano proficiency exams in bachelor programs across the country.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): Concurrent enrollment in MUSC 1116
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: Intended for students with prior performance experience in music, i.e., band, choir, orchestra, etc.
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Demonstrate musical literacy in both treble and bass clefs at the keyboard.
- Apply both major and minor key signatures in keyboard repertoire.
- Utilize musical symbols (clefs, dynamics, meters, rhythms) in interpreting keyboard repertoire.
- Perform all major and minor five-finger patterns at the keyboard.
- Perform major and minor scales, hands together, one octave.
- Perform I-IV-V7 chord progressions in multiple keys (both major and minor) at the keyboard.
- Harmonize melodies in five-finger position with I-IV-V7 chords at the keyboard.
- Apply interval analysis and aural recognition to keyboard repertoire.
- Develop sight-reading skills at the keyboard.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Keyboard notation
- Keyboard navigation
- Key signatures
- Musical symbol literacy
- Basic harmonic progressions/accompaniment creation
- Intervals
- Sight-reading
Credit for Prior Learning Options
Course-Specific Exam
Credit for Prior Learning Option Procedure(s)
The student should contact faculty member currently teaching the course to set up a date and time for the exam.
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