Course Description
The course aims at further training and enhancing students' piano accompaniment skills in teaching elementary students in the music classroom. Topics will include helping students integrate musical elements articulately into the practical skills of piano accompaniment for the music class. Moreover, discussion and interpretation of sensitivity of piano practice to various forms of children music, such as nursery rhymes, marching, and general children music will also be included in the class . The course will require students to learn several pieces of children music and practically perform these pieces for their classmates and teachers.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Demonstrating the ability to improvise music with piano.
CILO-2: Being able to perform and improvise music by chords.
CILO-3: Demonstrating the ability and knowledge in analyzing music, such as triads, inversions, music forms, modulation and chord progression.
CILO-4: Familiar with numbered musical notation (simplified music notation).
CILO-5: Being able to sight-read and play advanced level children music with piano, such as, nursery rhymes, marching, and general children music.