• Music History and Appreciation
• Resources and Research Methods
• Instrumental Evolution
• Pre-recorded Music
• Recorded Music
• Compositional Periods and Styles, 1600-1900



• Fundamentals
• Music Notation, Scales, Intervals, Triads, Seventh, Ninth Chords
• Rhythm and Accents
• Sight Reading and Singing
• Keyboard Harmony and Harmonic Progressions


• Diatonic Harmony
• Triads, Chord Structure and Root Progression
• Four-part Harmonic Composition Based on the Choralses of J.S. Bach
• Cadences, Non-harmonic Tones, Melodic Phrasing, and Modulation


• Chromatic Harmony
• Dominant Ninths, Secondary Dominants, Diminished Seventh Chords, and Altered Chords


• Modulation and Analysis
• Chord Analysis, Phrase Structure, and Tonal Relationships


• Piano
• Orientation to the Keyboard, Notation of Pitch and Rhythm
• Proper Technique, Including Vertical Height, Body Position, and Distance From the Keyboard
• Chords, Scales, Trills and Arpeggios
• Phrasing, Tone, Touch, Accents, and Dynamics

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