Keyboard Proficiency Requirements

Undergraduate Students

Note: The undergraduate keyboard proficiency requirements are normally satisfied by successful completion of MUS C401-403 (Church Music I-III)

• I. Hymn playing:
  a. Sight-read a hymn, playing the hymn as written
  b. Play the melody on a different manual, as a solo line (with accompaniment)
  c. Transpose a hymn at sight, up or down a major 2nd or minor 2nd.
  d. Using a prepared hymn of your choice, give it the aforementioned "treatments" (including transposition).
  

• II. Sight-read a solo vocal part with accompaniment. (i.e., play a singer's part and provide accompaniment)
  

• III. Sight-read an anthem.
  

• IV. Harmonize a given melody in four-part harmony.
  

• V. Add a second voice (improvise) below or above a hymn melody.
  

• VI. Modulate to G Major from a key of a 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th removed.
  

• VII. Sight-read a four-part open vocal score.
  

Graduate Students

• I. Transpose (at sight) a hymn up or down an interval no greater than a major 2nd.
  

• II. Realize a figured bass in four-part texture.
  

• III. Sight-read an open vocal score (usually four-part).
  

• IV. Other sight-reading.
  

• V. Modulate to G Major from any key.