Keyboard Practice 1

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Exemplification of the techniques by the teacher.

Promotion of individual work.

Individual keyboard teaching is the only way to teach very specific techniques with a high degree of precision. Such techniques allow the student a high degree of motor coordination, which is very important in any musical activity. For this, it is necessary not only this accompaniment, but also an enormous discipline and self-sufficiency of the student in his work at home.

• Knowing the keyboard, through experimentation, in its relationship with the fingers, hand, arm and body.

• Realize the usefulness of the keyboard as a study instrument, subsidiary in the study of the basic dimensions of music – melody, harmony, rhythm and dynamics – and, equally, within the scope of music technologies.

• Develop independence – RH/LH – as a foundational skill of keyboard practice.

• Realize, through practice, the basic rules of double-staff reading.

• Perform technical support exercises – mechanism exercises and musical study exercises.

• Execute an appropriate repertoire adapted to keyboard practice for adults in initiation.

• Meet higher musical and technical expectations whenever justified.

• TECHNIQUE (for the development of agility, strength control, independence and articulation): – M and m scales in opposite and parallel movement; – M and m arpeggios in parallel movement.

• STUDIES (for the development of reading and interpretation): – Pieces from Op. 599, from Czerny, to nº 20.

• FUNCTIONAL HARMONY (for studying keyboard harmony): Tonal function sequences, in M and m mode, fundamental and inverted state – given by the teacher and proposed by the student; – in traditional notation; – improvised; – in alternative notations; – open/closed position.

• REPERTOIRE: One or two pieces by J. S. Bach, from the “Livro de Ana Madalena Bach”. A sonatina movement from the set of Sonatinas Op.36 by Clementi.

NOTE: level of difficulty and amount of repertoire depending on the student’s specific conditions

Continuing Evaluation

Students can choose between two types of assessment: continuous/ periodic assessment or exam.

The presence in classes is mandatory with minimum 85% (art. 13 nº2 Reg. acad.).

The weightings according to the syllabus are as follows:

• TECHNIQUE (3 marks - 15%);

• STUDIES: Czerny Op. 599, one piece chosen from numbers 5 to 20; (4 marks - 20%);

• FUNCTIONAL HARMONY (3 marks - 15%);

• REPERTOIRE (10 marks - 50%): A piece from the "Book of Ana Madalena Bach" (4 marks - 20%) + A sonatina movement (6 marks - 30%).

In assessment by exam, the weightings according to the syllabus are the same as in continuous/ periodic assessment

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