Piano Pedagogy Certificate

Program: Certificate in Piano Pedagogy
Department of Music
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Rhinehart Music Center (RC) 144 ~ 260-481-6714 ~ www.ipfw.edu/vpa/music

The student learning outcomes for the degree are as follows:

• Performance. Students will demonstrate the ability to perform competently in public on a principal instrument or voice as a soloist and as a member of a major ensemble.

• Music Theory. Students will demonstrate:
  • knowledge of musical form, structures, concepts, and terms
  • skill and fluency in application through analysis
  • ability to compose within basic musical structures
  • perspective regarding historical styles and structures
  • ability to relate the cognitive to aural perception and to aesthetic response
• Aural Perception. Students will demonstrate the ability to:
  • read and sing melodic lines with accurate intonation
  • read and perform complex rhythms accurately
  • recognize and notate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns and progressions

• Keyboard. All music majors will be able to use the keyboard as a basic tool and will demonstrate the ability to:
  • perform appropriate technical skills such as scales, arpeggios, etc.
  • play chord progression from Roman numerals
  • improvise
  • play “by ear” and from lead sheets
  • harmonize melodic lines
  • perform repertoire at the intermediate level
  • transpose simple pieces and lead sheets
  • sight read at the late elementary level
  • play from 4-part open score.
    
• Technology. Students will demonstrate a basic overview of how technology serves the field of music as a whole including the following:
  • knowledge of computer hardware
  • ability to use notational software
  • ability to use the Internet as a resource for research.