DMA Keyboard Proficiency

Certain areas of study require keyboard proficiency. These standards are as follows:

Composition: Keyboard sight reading for composition majors consists of simple four-part, open choral score reading and a demonstrated ability to sight-read multiple lines at a time from a full orchestral or band score at pitch and in common transpositions (F, E-flat, B-flat, A) and tenor or alto clefs. The selected excerpts, which require moderate piano technical skills, must be transposed to the proper key and sounding octave.

Voice (Vocal Performance): Perform a piano audition of approximately five minutes in length. Repertoire presented should be equivalent in difficulty to that of Clementi Sonatinas or J. S. Bach Two Part Inventions. Pieces need not be memorized. Sight-read song accompaniments of moderate difficulty.

Choral Conducting: Sight reading for choral conducting majors consists of four-part, open choral score reading.

Wind Instrument Conducting: Sight read lines from a full orchestral or band score in common transpositions (F, E-flat, B-flat, A) and tenor or alto clefs. The selected excerpts, which require moderate piano technical skills, must be transposed to the proper key and sounding octave.

Orchestral Conducting: Two excerpts will be given to the student 24 hours prior to the exam, including four-part strings and four to five woodwinds and/or brass, including at least two transpositions. Two additional excerpts will be given at the exam, including a single line in alto or tenor clef, and a single line in B-flat, F, or A transposition.

The student's level will be ascertained by means of an audition; the required skills must be acquired be for candidacy.





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