Piano Master
I
Introduction
About the position of
the body. About the position of the hands.
About the position of the fingers. About fingering. Technical
aspects of the piano.
UNIT 1
Notes.- Staff.-
Additional lines.- Note values.- Rets.- Clefs.-
Bar lines.- Time signature.-
Stress.
Exercises for the right and left hands
separately.
Tie or bind.-
Dot.
Exercises for the two hands.- Holding notes.-
Exercises on
third.- Change of fingers.
Syncopation.- Notes
against the beat.
UNIT 2
Accidentals.- Enharmony.-
Abbreviations.- Tempo.
Exercises
for the two hands.
Pause.- The abbreviation.-
Repetition signs.- Special value groupings.
Extension
exercises.
UNIT
3
Dynamics.- Accentuation
signs.- Articulation (Phrasing).- Intervals.- Semitone and tone.-
Consonance and dissonance.- Tonality or key.- Scale.- Diatonic scale and chromatic
scale.-
Modality or mode.- Scale grades.- Analysis of the grades in a diatonic scale.-
Tonal
and modal grades.- Tonality framework.
UNIT
4
Chords.- Triads.- Four-note
chords.- Chord inversion.- Chord voices.-
The layout chords.- Arpeggios.- The major mode.- To form triads.-
Classification of the triads.- To form Four-note chords.- Classification
of the Four-note Chords.- Greek modes.- Graphic representation of triads.-
Graphic representation of Four-note chords.-
UNIT
5
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5.
(Major triad).
Movement or progression:
By minor seconds. By Major seconds. By minor thirds.
......................................... By cycle of fifths.
By cycle of fifths, keeping
......................................... harmonic continuity.
Directions: Ascending.-
Descending.- Ascending - Descending.- Descending - Ascending.
................... Ascending - Ascending.- Descending- Descending.
Technique.
Two hands. Movement of the thumbs.
Write
intervals.-Spot intervals.
.........Major 2nd.............Major 3rd .............Perfect 4th............Perfect 5th
..
UNIT
6
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, 5.
(Minor triad)
Name
the grades in scale.
Name
the tonal grades.
UNIT
7
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, b5.
(Diminished triad).
Name
the modal grades.
Build
the triads on every grade of the scale.
UNIT
8
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5, 6.
(Major chord with sixth).
Build the Four-note
chord on every grade of the scale.
UNIT
9
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5, 7. (Major chord with Major seventh).
The Major Ionian scale.
Holding
notes.
Piano Master
II
UNIT
1
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, 5, b7.
(Minor Four-note chord with minor seventh).
The minor natural Ĉolian
scale.
The Dorian scale.
The Phrygian scale.
UNIT
2
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5, b7.
(Major Four-note chord with minor seventh = Dominat).
The Mixolydian scale.
Write
chords in their root position and their inversions.
Write
the inversion and disposition of chords.
Holding
notes.
UNIT
3
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, b5, b7.
(Minor Four-note chord with minor seventh and diminished fifth).
The Locrian scale.
Holding
notes.
Write
chord symbols.
The Lydian scale.
UNITS
4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10
Exercises
on Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Ĉolian and Locrian scales.
Progression by minor seconds. Major seconds. Minor thirds. Cycle of fifths.
Direcctions: Ascending. Descending.
Charts to write the
intervalic formula of Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian,Ĉolian
and Locrian scales.
Staffs to write the
Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian,Ĉolian
and Locrian scales.
UNIT
11
Harmonising a melody.-
Harmonisation types.- Main notes.- Secondary notes.
Chord vocing.- Closed position.- Open position.- Harmonic movement.
Melodic
and Harmonic Exercises on Major chords with a Major seventh and the Ionian
Major scale.
Write
chord symbols.
Grade
and tonal function of chords.
UNIT
12
Tendencies of the scale
grades.- Tonal functions.- Tonal function of the Major scale
chords.- Tonic chords.-Subdominant chords.-Dominant chords.- Chart of harmonic
movements.
Melodic
exercises on the Major mode.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the minor Four-note chord and the Ĉolian scale.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the minor Four-note chord and the Dorian scale.
UNIT
13
Placing chord symbols.-Placing
chords within the harmonic phrase.- Cadences.-
Perfect cadences.- Plagal cadences.- Interrupted cadences.- Imperfect cadences.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / I Maj 7. Root position and their inversions.
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern II-7 / I Maj 7 and Dorian and Ionian scales. Root position
and their inversions.
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern V7 and the Mixolydian scale. Root position and their inversions.
II - V Relationship.-
Sequence.
Exercises
to state the grade and tonal function of chords.
Place
chords that form cadences in different tonalities.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / V7 / I Maj 7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Piano Master
III
UNIT
1
Non-diatonic chords.-
Secondary Dominants.-Inserted II-7 .- Extended Dominants.
Most commonly used patterns.- Anatole or Anatol.
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern II-7 / V7 / I Maj 7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / V7 / II-7 / V7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern V7/VI / V7/II / V7/V / V7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern II-7(b5) / V7/VI / II-7 / V7/II / II-7 / V7/V / II-7 / V7 / I Maj 7.
Root position and their inversions.
UNIT
2
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the Major mode.
UNIT
3
The minor mode.- The
natural minor scale (Ĉolian).-Triads and Four-note chord formed on the minor
natural scale (Ĉolian).-Tonal functions of the minor mode (Ĉolian).- The Harmonic
minor scale.- Triads and Four-note chord formed on every grade of theHarmonic
minor scale.-
Tonal functions of the Harmonic minor scale grades.- The melodic minor scale.-
Triads and Four-note chords built on the melodic minor scale.- Tonal functions
of the melodic minor scale grades.
UNIT
4
Keyborad area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, 3, #5.
(Major triad and augmented fifth).
Build
the triads in the minor natural mode.
UNIT
5
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, b3, 5, 6.
(Minor chord with sixth)
Build
the Four-note chords in the minor natural mode.
UNIT
6
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, b3, 5, 7.
(Minor chord with Major seventh)
The minor Harmonic scale.
The minor Melodic scale.
Build
the triads in the minor Harmonic mode.
UNIT
7
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, 3, #5, 7.
(Major chord with Major seventh and augmented fifth).
Build
the Four-note chords in the minor Melodic mode.
UNIT
8
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula1, b3, b5, bb7.
(Minor chord with diminished fifth and dininished seventh).
Build
triads and Four-note chords in the minor Melodic mode.
UNIT
9
Exercises
on the minor Harmonic scale.
Charts
to write the intervalic formula of the minor Harmonic scale.
Staffs
to write the minor Harmonic scale.
UNIT
10
Exercises
on the minor Melodic scale.
Charts
to write the intervalic formula of the minor Melodic scale.
Staffs
to write the minor Melodic scale.
UNIT
11
