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    This document outlines the piano proficiency exam requirements for music students at a university. It states that all music students must complete a three-quarter class piano sequence to prepare for the proficiency exam. The exam includes performing prepared pieces of music, playing major and minor scales, cadences, harmonizing a melody, sight-reading a choral score, and playing a choral or vocal accompaniment. Music education majors must pass the exam before student teaching while all other majors need it for graduation.

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    This document outlines the piano proficiency exam requirements for music students at a university. It states that all music students must complete a three-quarter class piano sequence to prepare for the proficiency exam. The exam includes performing prepared pieces of music, playing major and minor scales, cadences, harmonizing a melody, sight-reading a choral score, and playing a choral or vocal accompaniment. Music education majors must pass the exam before student teaching while all other majors need it for graduation.

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    This document outlines the piano proficiency exam requirements for music students at a university. It states that all music students must complete a three-quarter class piano sequence to prepare for the proficiency exam. The exam includes performing prepared pieces of music, playing major and minor scales, cadences, harmonizing a melody, sight-reading a choral score, and playing a choral or vocal accompaniment. Music education majors must pass the exam before student teaching while all other majors need it for graduation.

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    PIANO PROFICIENCY EXAM REQUIREMENTS

    A. All music students must complete the class piano sequence: Piano I, II, and III (MUS 152A,
    153A, and 154A). The final exam of Piano III is the Proficiency Exam that is scheduled during
    finals week. Students with piano backgrounds may be excused from taking Piano I or Piano I
    and II. These students should contact the department advisor to schedule a piano placement
    exam to be administered before fall quarter classes begin. Students taking secondary piano
    lessons (MUS 171A) are allowed to take the piano proficiency exam with their applied
    instructor. Music Education majors must take the exam before student-teaching placement is
    scheduled. All other majors need the exam for graduation. THIS IS CHECKED BY THE
    EVALUATORS IN THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICE.

    The following three items should be prepared well in advance of the exam. You are expected to take the
    exam as a whole within the allotted 15 minutes.
    1. Repertoire:
    • Music Education majors – “The Star-Spangled Banner”
    • Performance Majors - A prepared repertory piece.
    • Bachelor of Arts Majors - A prepared repertory piece.
    • Music Education and Performance (Double major) – “The Star-Spangled Banner” and a
    prepared repertory piece

    The prepared repertory piece should be at the same level of difficulty as the first movement of
    Clementi’s Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No. 1 or a piece approved by a CWU piano faculty
    member.

    You will be expected to play “The Star-Spangled Banner” and/or approved prepared
    repertory piece fluently, with a constant pulse, at a minimum tempo of about M. M. quarter
    note = 72. (The tempo of the prepared repertory piece can be different and must be
    previously approved by a piano faculty member.) It is the first thing you will be asked to do.
    The inability to do this will stop the exam immediately.

    2. Scales: 9 major scales and 9 harmonic minor scales (to four flats and four sharps in each
    mode.) Perform scales hands separately, two octaves, ascending and descending.
    Performance need not to be fast, but must be fluent and demonstrate knowledge and
    confidence. Fingering must conform to standard patterns. See a piano instructor or a scale
    fingering chart, such as in the Class piano text.

    3. Cadences: be able to play the following both cadences in the same keys and modes as
    the scales:
    1) I – IV – I – V7 – I in major and i – iv – i – V7 – i in minor
    2) I – vi – IV – ii7 – V7 – I in major and i – VI – iv – iiø7 – V7 – i in minor
    No. 1. C Major No. 1. C Minor

    No. 2. C Major No. 2. C Minor

    You will be given music for the next three tasks on the first day of the last week of
    classes each quarter.

    4. Harmonization: You will be given a short, folksong-like tune. Prepare a harmonization


    with the melody in the right hand and a block chord (as a minimum) accompaniment in
    the left hand. You may restrict harmonies to the primary chords (I (i), IV (iv), and V).
    Play in the transposed key as directed. Do not write out the new key.

    5. Score Reading: You will be given an open choral score of one or two pages. Prepare
    so that you can simultaneously play any two voice parts at any place in the score.

    6. You will be given several pages of an accompaniment for a choral work or solo vocal
    piece. Prepare so that you can play the accompaniment without hesitation. You are
    encouraged to simplify the texture, if necessary, so that you can play an
    accompaniment that you can do easily, yet will provide the essential musical frame.
     
     
    The prepared repertory piece should be at the same level of difficulty as the first
    movement of Clementi’s Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No. 1 or a piece approved by
    a CWU piano faculty member.

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