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Keyboard Proficiency Exam


Music Majors are required to demonstrate a level of keyboard proficiency that permits the reading of elementary keyboard repertory with some facility.
The Keyboard Proficiency Exam includes:
1. Sight-reading of melodic lines.

Read, in correct rhythm, individual parts of a string quartet or a four-part choral work. Student may choose to be tested on either an instrumental or a vocal example

Read, in correct rhythm, single atonal melodic lines notated in treble and bass clefs.

2 Performance of a prepared peice of upper elementary difficulty, at minimum.

Students should direct any questions regarding the keyboard proficiency exam to members of the keyboard faculty.




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