Courses
Contrapuntal Jazz Improvisation for Pianists
This course offers a step-by-step approach to improvising contrapuntally in a solo piano context.
Survey of Piano Styles
A study of the history and development of the art of jazz piano and the lives and times of the artists themselves.
Keyboard Fundamentals
An online keyboard program for non-piano principals designed to give students skills in note reading, chord voicings, rhythmic interpretation, technique, and other instrumental skills.
Keyboard Class 4 for Music Education Majors
Continued use of chorale style materials including some standard public school literature. Further use of simple melodies with rhythmicized chordal patterns in minor keys.
Keyboard Class 3 for Music Education Majors
Further development of techniques necessary for functional piano playing in public school teaching. Full chorale style with the aid of graduated coordination studies.
Keyboard Class 2 for Music Education Majors
Coordination studies leading to a simple chorale style. Introduction to transposition of simple melodies with accompaniment (major keys).
Keyboard Class 1 for Music Education Majors
A graduated piano study for beginning students dealing with note reading, rhythm, and technique.
Keyboard Skills for the Writer
A course designed to provide the Professional Writing Division student with the specialized keyboard skills necessary to develop their composition abilities.
Basic Keyboard Techniques 2
Continuation of ISKB-211. Advanced comping, voicings, additional melody with accompaniment.
Basic Keyboard Techniques 1
For non-piano principals. Comping, harmonic continuity. Triads, seventh chords, melody, and accompaniment. Standard song forms, blues.
Jazz Harmonic Applications 2
The course offers an organized approach to develop a thorough knowledge of common harmonic vocabulary used in contemporary jazz established in ILPN-271, ILPN-272, and ILPN-273 (Jazz Harmonic Techni
Classical Accompanying
The study and performance of traditionally notated accompaniments for music in a wide variety of styles serving to enhance performances and rehearsal skills, as well as broaden professional opportu
Classical Repertory for Two Pianos
An advanced instrumental lab for pianists that focuses on traditional and 20th-century literature for two pianos, four hands.
Hammond Organ Techniques 2
Continued study of specific techniques for Hammond organ learned in ILPN-335, Hammond Organ Techniques. Greater emphasis on left-hand bass and foot-pedal bass.
Rock Styles Lab - Hammond Organ
Instrumental lab for piano principals emphasizing techniques of playing the Hammond organ in rock styles.
Blues Styles for Hammond Organ
Instrumental lab for piano principals emphasizing techniques of playing the Hammond B3 organ in blues styles.
Hammond Organ Techniques
Instrumental lab for piano principals emphasizing fundamental techniques and skills involved in playing the Hammond organ in predominant contemporary styles, including jazz, R&B, blues, rock, a
Jazz Harmonic Applications
An organized approach to develop a thorough knowledge of common harmonic vocabulary used in contemporary jazz harmony, arranging, and composition.
Jazz Harmonic Techniques for Piano 2
An organized approach to establishing a thorough foundation of knowledge and proficiency in keyboard for the study of jazz harmony, improvisation, and composition. A continuation of ILPN-271.
Jazz Harmonic Techniques for Piano 1
Material to be covered includes scales, scale patterns, diatonic chords, available tensions, triads, seventh chords, guide tones, simple voicing techniques, and sight-reading lead sheets (melody/ch