Proficiency Test for PCL 106

When you are ready to take this test, contact Professor Caramia (room 410; tcaramia@esm.rochester.edu)

1) Technique: ALL major and minor keys

  •  major scales; minor scales (3 forms), hands together, 4 octaves

  •  corresponding major and minor triad arpeggios, hands together, 2 octaves

  •  corresponding dom. and dim 7th chord arpeggios, hands together, 2 octaves

  •  1 (one) etude from Bertini (Op.100), or Burgmuller (Op.100), or Czerny, or Heller (Opp.45, 47, 125)

2) Repertoire: a minimum of three (3) pieces, using different composers and styles from the Impressionistic and 20th Century, selected from (but not limited to):

Adler	Gradus, Book 1
Bartok	For Children, Vol.1-2 Mikrokosmos, Vol.4-6 Rumanian Dances
Bloch	Engantines
Clark, F	Contemporary Piano Lit 3-4
Creston	Five Little Dances
Debussy	Arabesques; Preludes, Book 1 Preludes, Book 1
Gillock	Lyric Preludes
Hovhaness	Mountain Idylls
Kabalevsky	Opp. 27, 39, 40
Persichetti	little piano book
Prokofiev	Music for Children
Reinhold	Miniatures, Op.39
Tansman	Pour les Enfants
Wilder	Mosaics

3) Accompaniment: a piano accompaniment from the student's major instrument

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