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Piano accompaniment and sight-reading - course description

General information
Course name Piano accompaniment and sight-reading
Course ID 03.2-WA-P-Akz Czyt-S18
Faculty Faculty of Arts
Field of study WA - oferta ERASMUS / Humanities and Arts, Music
Education profile -
Level of studies First-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2018/2019
Course information
Semester 2
ECTS credits to win 4
Course type obligatory
Teaching language polish
Author of syllabus
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Class 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Development of practical piano playing skills concerning both creating and reading music. Learning the basic chord patterns and becoming familiar with the types of piano textures. Acquiring the skills of reading and interpret of chords and chord symbols. Learning the principles of creating the melody and the bass line. Learning the basic elements of improvisation based on chord patterns. 

Prerequisites

A pass grade in the entrance examinations for the first year of Music Education Studies and achieving the required credits for the 3rd semester. 

Scope

Semester 1: 

Constructing a full piano accompaniment to a monodic melody. Creating one’s own melodic and chord structures. Creating intros and outros to songs. Reading piano pieces for 4 hands, sight-reading simple piano works. 

Semester 2:
Basic elements of piano improvisation: creating melody and the bass line on a basis of a chord structure, playing accompaniments to movement exercises and dances, sight-reading of chord symbols (used in traditional music as well as in jazz and popular music), transposition. 

Teaching methods

Practical exercises in piano playing and analysis of selected examples from the music literature. 

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Semester 1:
Grade for playing accompaniments to five songs (including intros and outros) and sight-reading of a piano piece (for piano solo and for four hands).

Semester 2:
Grade for playing transpositions of accompaniments to selected songs and accompaniments to movement exercises as well as and sight-reading of chord symbols. 

Recommended reading

A. Koszewski: Materiały do nauki improwizacji fortepianowej, PWSM, Poznań, 1968
Maria Kubica-Skarbowska. Podstawy Improwizacji Fortepianowej, Skrypt Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach, nr 518, Katowice 1996 

A. Poszowski: Harmonia tonalna, PWSM w Gdańsku, Gdańsk 2001 

Wojciech Olszewski, Podstawy harmonii we współczesnej muzyce jazzowej i rozrywkowej, PWM, Kraków 2010 

Further reading

Arrangements and pieces for piano for 4 hands 

G. Mania, M. Gardoń-Preinl, Czytanie a vista, PWM, Kraków 2017 

Notes


Modified by mgr Żaneta Kicińska (last modification: 29-05-2018 14:58)