Contacts:
David
Karp, Head of Class Piano, 214.768.3188, dkarp@smu.edu
Kevin T. Gunter, Coordinator
of Class Piano, 214.768.2695, kgunter@smu.edu
All undergraduate music
degrees include a piano requirement.
B.M.
degrees in Performance, Composition, Music Education and Therapy
require a
total of four hours of piano credit.
For students with less than two years of formal piano study
prior to college, this is normally satisfied
with PERB 1131, 1132, 2131, and 2132
Ð four one-hour courses taken in each of the first four semesters at
SMU. Keyboard majors and students in other
music
majors that have extensive pre-college keyboard background normally
enroll for
PERB 1233 and 1234 Ð two two-hour courses taken in either the second or
third year at SMU.
The B.A. degree in Music
requires two semesters of class piano Ð
PERB 1131 and 1132 or PERB 2131 and 2132 according to proficiency or
placement
exam. B.A. students with a piano
concentration may satisfy this requirement by taking PERB 1233 or 1234.
The
Minor in Music does not require
class piano or a piano proficiency.
Music
majors with two years or more of formal piano study may be
individually
tested for advanced placement in Class Piano, academic credit, and/or a
waiver
of the Class Piano requirement.
Students wishing to be tested for exemption from PERB 1131 should prepare the following items:
1) Piano solo at the level of a L. Mozart
minuet
(memory not required)
2) All major scales two octaves ascending and
descending hands separately
3) Triads and inversions on any major or
minor triad
4) Primary triad progression in keyboard
voicing in
any major key
In addition, students will be asked to sight-read material at appropriate
level and to supply a harmonization for
a given diatonic melody using primary triads.
Students wishing to be exempted from PERB 1132 should prepare the same items, plus:
1) All minor scales two octaves ascending and
descending hands alone
2) All major scales two octaves ascending and
descending hands together
3) Five qualities of seventh chords on any
tonic
4) Progressions of diatonic triads that
include primary
and secondary harmonies
(e.g.
I vi IV V I)
In addition, students will be asked to sight-read material at appropriate
level and to supply a harmonization for
a given diatonic melody using primary and secondary triads.
Students wishing to be exempted from PERB 2131 should prepare:
1) Piano solo of the level of a J.S. Bach
minuet
2) Major and harmonic minor scales two
octaves
ascending and descending hands together
3) Chord progressions that include any
primary or
secondary harmony in minor
(e.g.
I VI IV ii6 i6/4 V7 I)
4) Construct and play secondary dominants of
any
scale degree in any major key
In addition, students will be asked to sight-read material at the level of a
L. Mozart minuet, transpose the same
material at sight and supply a harmonization
for a given diatonic melody that includes 7th chords and
secondary harmonies indicated by Roman numerals.