Music Piano

Provides practical instruction in adapting hymns/songs for worship service playing and for creative solo arrangement.

Provides music majors taking piano as a secondary instrument opportunity to focus on developing the fundamental skills needed to both pass the piano proficiency exam and function successfully in a music career. Topics include basic keyboard technique and theory, sight-reading, improvisation and harmonization of melodies, transposition, and repertoire of an appropriate level. Assigned music difficulty increases as the semester progresses.