Course Listings
Piano Pedagogy
This minor can be combined with any major except music. Piano Pedagogy is also available as a concentration within the Music major.
Minor in Piano Pedagogy
22 credit hours
Student learning outcomes
Graduates with a minor in Piano Pedagogy will:
- Demonstrate growth in musicianship and artistry for excellence in music performance.
- Demonstrate increased skills and knowledge for quality scholarship in music.
- Develop expertise toward effective pedagogies and leadership in music.
- Integrate performance skills, aesthetic understandings and academic work toward music’s service as an instrument of peacemaking and the deepening of Christian faith.
- Demonstrate preparedness for a vibrant career that includes using the musical arts for a positive contribution to society.
MUS 201 Music Theory
This course develops skills in analysis and composition to learn melodic, contrapuntal, harmonic, motivic, and formal principles of music towards a stronger theoretical understanding of how music is constructed. Although a variety of styles will be explored and used as...
MUS 202 Music Theory
A continuation of Mus 201, this course continues the study of Western music theory via analysis and composition activities. Concepts studied include phrase structure, linear dominant chords, predominant and linear harmonic functions, melodic figuration and dissonance, deeper exploration of diatonic...
MUS 204 Survey of Music Literature
Designed to follow a year of music theory and precede the study of music history, this course presents an introduction to the basic style periods in Western music literature and acquaints the student with the main forms, composers and masterworks...
MUS 208 Piano Pedagogy I
This introductory course in the piano pedagogy sequence focuses on the beginning student and on the materials and teaching techniques most effective for this level of instruction. The course includes weekly lecture-discussion sessions, observation of class and private instruction, and...
MUS 310 Piano Pedagogy II
This course will survey literature appropriate for intermediate and more advanced students. In addition emphasis will also be placed on essential elements of technical development, setting up a private teaching studio, pedagogical research, and important past teachers.