Letters identify the items selected from the Keyboard
Proficiency Examination Master List of Requirements.
G. With two days of preparation,
harmonize two different phrases of a chorale melody in a four-voice
note-against-note chordal style. Include at least one diatonic
seventh chord, one secondary dominant or secondary leading tone
seventh chord, and one augmented-sixth chord in each melody; some
inversions of these chords must be included. (Total of 15 points)
H. With two days of preparation,
realize two different chord progressions in a four-voice note-against-note
chordal style from Roman numeral symbols and figured bass abbreviations.
(Total of 25 points)
K. Play at sight (a) one
moderately easy two-or three-voice piano composition and (b) one
moderately easy four-voice piano composition. (Total of 20 points:
10 points for each composition)
Q. Play at sight a one-voice
excerpt that involves a movable clef or transposition. With two
days of preparation, play (a) one two-voice and (b) one four-voice
excerpt from open score in which one line involves a movable clef
or transposition. The one-voice excerpt may not be played through
once before it is transposed. (Total of 20 points: 6 for the one-voice,
6 for the two-voice, 8 for the four-voice excerpt)
DD. With two days of preparation,
select and play one (complete) four-voice chorale harmonization
of J.S. Bach with music in a tempo (eighth note =c. 80) suitable
for singing. (Total of 20 points)
