Chamber Music for Piano
Duets
with an Introduction to Collaborative Performance
Spring 2006 Semester (syllabus subject to
change at any point)
for Performance, Pedagogy,
Education (piano/vocal or instrumental
emphasis),
Composition Majors (piano concentration)
AND
Piano Minors
Instructor: Dr.
Dena Kay Jones
Office: 436 Fox
Fine Arts, Music
Email: dkjones@utep.edu
Ph# (915) 747 –
6625
Office
Hours: I am available to schedule conference times with any student via
email or phone call.
Course
Description
Study and
performance of collaborative piano repertoire—known as piano duets—with
additional introduction to piano pedagogical content and methodology,
historical background, the world of accompanying/coaching, performance
practices appropriate for corresponding keyboard instruments and assessment of
personal achievements in the various fields of piano collaboration—all in
relation to this specified literature.
Goals
The goals of the
course are to prepare pianists to:
- Perform music effectively with
knowledge of historical and theoretical context
- Develop multiple approaches to
learning, reading and employing musical thought
- Broaden knowledge in regard to
actual literature of all levels and to utilize a new set of both teaching
and performance tools, not yet obtained in solo piano practices
Objectives
At the
completion of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Study and perform collaborative pieces
(using both reading skills and performance skills) through a variety of modes
based on piano technique, theory, history and personal interpretation.
2. Sight read comfortably (equally
both Primo/Secondo and Piano I/Piano II
parts), playing with his/her partner from the beginning to the end of a work,
without stopping.
3. Discuss particular piano works
in regard to structure, harmony, melody rhythmic content, and other musical
parameters.
4. Set short-term and long-term
performance goals.
5. Accompany and collaborate
successfully with fellow musicians.
Text
(required)
Hinson, Maurice. Music for More
than One Piano: An Annotated Guide (
ISBN#: 0-253-21457-2.
McGraw, Cameron. Piano Duet Repertoire: Music Originally Written for One Piano, Four Hands.
Reprint Edition (
ISBN#: 0-253-21461-0.
Texts
(not required)
Materials will
be taken from the following textbooks, and although not required for the class,
may be textbooks you’ll want to add to your music library.
Adler, Kurt. The Art of
Accompanying and Coaching. Corrected Edition.
Ferguson, Howard. Keyboard Duets
from the 16th to the 20th Century for One and Two
Pianos.
Gillespie, John. Five
Centuries of Keyboard Music.
[ISBN#: 0-48-622855-X].
Moore, Gerald. The Unashamed
Accompanist. With a foreword by Geoffrey Parsons and an Afterword by Graham Johnson.
Revised Edition.
Performance
Opportunities
We are fortunate
to have many venues in which to try out new pieces, old pieces, or simply gain
experience in performing the works you will study in class. Students taking this course are allowed to
participate in the Piano Area Recitals. Attendance is required (and please
invite your students, friends and families!).
Classroom
Expectations
By now, many of you as musicians know that last minute preparation does not warrant successful performances. We as pianists are to do more than simply hit the right notes; one can only begin to understand and execute many more musical ideas when not consumed with the memory process. In order to assist you with this philosophy, strict checks will be enforced:
Chosen Repertoire: You will be working on at least one
large-scale piano duet. The first
repertoire piece will be determined by the instructor
1st segment of piece (as determined by the professor): Music must be performed in-class by both
pianists: a true collaboration. You will only have four weeks to
prepare. Performances will be held on
February 6th and 8th.
The grade of this performance will count as 5% of the total grade. Criteria listed directly below:
- 90-100 points = A =
Pieces played with an understanding of musical form, phrase structure,
dynamic levels and well-thought-out, personal musical interpretation. Also the team of pianists sounds as one
unit.
- 80-89 points = B =
Pieces generally performed well but with a few accuracy slips and room for
growth related to execution of musical form, phrase structure, dynamic
levels and personal musical interpretation. The team is not completely heard as one
unit.
- 70-79 points = C =
Pieces very shaky, and no understanding of musical form, phrase structure,
or dynamic levels. No previous thought of musical interpretation. The ensemble
does not sound together at all.
- 60-69 points = D =
Pianists are not able to get from the beginning to the end of the assigned
ending.
- 50-59 points = F =
Pianists have no conception of the piece whatsoever.
2nd
segment of piece (as determined by the professor): Music must be performed in-class by both
pianists: a true collaboration. You will
only have four more weeks to prepare.
Performances will be held on March 6th and 8th. The grade for this performance will be
entered as you Mid-term “exam.” The
score of this exam will count 5% toward your final grade for this class.
3rd segment
of piece (as determined by the professor):
Music must be performed in-class by both pianists: a true
collaboration. You will only have four
final weeks to prepare the remainder of the piece. Performances will be held on April 10th
and the 12th. The grade of
this performance will count as 5% toward the final grade.
Sight
Reading Evaluation
Part of
designated classes will be assigned time for sight reading pedagogical piano
duets—duets targeted for your use in teaching piano ensembles. You will be required to read Primo and Secondo parts, as well as Piano
I and Piano II parts. A certain level of sight reading will be required
upon entering this course. If you are
struggling with the reading section of the class, please go to the music
library and check out solo method books in order to practice sight reading on
your own: at least thirty minutes daily.
An overall grade will be given to each student, representing their level
of progress throughout the semester.
This grade will count as 5% of the total grade.
Final
Exam
There will be a final performance
of the work; date, place and time to be determined. This final performance will count as 20% of
your final grade.
Expectations
and Grading
Grades
are based on
- Attendance and
punctuality for class; and if absence is necessary, the amount of effort
shown toward notifying the professor if unable to attend.
- Quality and quantity
of practice as evidenced by progress from class to class.
- Completing all
assigned pieces by the end of the semester.
- Completing all
assigned homework as required by class instructor.
- And all grades entered as explained
in syllabus above
“A”: Consistent work and continued
progress throughout the semester
“B”: As above, but reflecting
less than consistent work throughout the semester, poor preparation that has
the potential for improvement
“C”: Inconsistent work, poor
attendance or punctuality, and/or lack of participation.
“D”: Inability to produce any
positive results regarding performance or homework assignments.
“F”: Failure to attend class,
or failure to show any work or preparation.
Grades will be
earned through the completion of the following activities and assignments with
the grade weighting designated:
Assignment Grade
Weighting
|
Class
Participation |
.60 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st
performance segment Midterm
Exam |
.05 .05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3rd
performance segment |
.05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sight Reading
Evaluation |
.05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Final Exam |
.20 |
|
|
|
|
|
Grade Scale
A=100-90
B=89-80
C=79-70
D=69-60
F=59-0
Grade
Computation Example
|
Assignment |
Grade |
|
Weight |
|
Component |
|
Class
Participation |
93 |
x |
.60 |
= |
55.80 |
|
1st
segment |
75 |
x |
.05 |
= |
3.75 |
|
Midterm |
95 |
x |
.05 |
= |
4.75 |
|
3rd
segment |
65 |
x |
.05 |
= |
3.25 |
|
Sight
Reading Evaluation |
85 |
x |
.05 |
= |
4.25 |
|
Final
Exam |
88 |
x |
.20 |
= |
17.60 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
of weighted grades |
|
|
|
= |
89.40 B+ |
Computers Any homework requirements written outside
of class must be done on a word-processor. Please see the instructor if you
have any questions.
Attendance
Policy
Class will be
held in Music 436,
If I am ill, I
will have the office post a sign on the classroom door in addition to
contacting you as soon as possible.
Because of the
nature of this chamber music piano duet class, frequent attendance is a must
for the successful student. Most aspects of the final grade result from
in-class activity and class activity improvement throughout the semester.
Therefore, students cannot get a good grade if they are not in class and
contributing to activities and group discussions. Nor can those students
who miss out on class and group discussions or lectures expect to successfully
complete assignments or exams. Therefore, the student who is flourishing
in the Chamber Music Piano Duet class is the student who attends regularly.
When a student
has compiled a total of four instances of unsatisfactory attendance, he/she
will be dropped with a “W” from the course prior to the drop deadline or fail
the course after the drop deadline.
This drop
deadline date is:
March 24th.
The only excused
absences will be absences from university-sanctioned events (athletic events,
concerts, etc.), emergency illness, a religious-affiliated absence, jury duty,
or a funeral for a member of your family. Documentary proof of all five
of these circumstances must be provided before or immediately after the
fact. If you know that you will be absent from class, it is your
responsibility to hand in assignments before your absence. The instructor
will not accept late homework.
Students are
expected to be in the classroom during the entire class period. Excessive
tardiness (coming in 10 minutes after the beginning of class) or leaving the
classroom early—unless approved ahead of time with the instructor—will result
in an absence.
Students not
meeting the above attendance requirements will be dropped from the
course. Students dropped before the Course Drop Deadline of March 24th, will be dropped with a “W”; after the
deadline, students will be dropped with an “F”. Remember that your
instructor cannot drop you after March 24th.
Tentative Schedule of
Events
(may be changed at any
point of the class)
Other events TBA
|
Monday and Wednesday, February 6th
and 8th |
Performance of 1st segment
of piece |
436 Fox Fine Arts |
|
|
Monday and Wednesday, March 6th and 8th |
Midterm |
436 Fox Fine Arts |
|
|
Monday and Wednesday, April 10th and 12th |
Performance of 3rd segment of piece |
FFA Recital Hall |
|
|
FINAL
PERFORMANCE |
|
TBA |
|
·
Sight
Performance
Repertoire List (for your own records and repertoire needs):
BAROQUE
ERA (1600-1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto
No. 1 in C Minor for two harpsichords (BWV 1060) Music,
Herndon
Concerto
No. 2 in C Major for two harpsichords (BWV 1061)
Concerto
No. 3 in D Minor for two harpsichords (BWV 1062)
Music, Herndon
Look for scores in Main Library M3.B1133
One CD recording is in our music library = C20B122C (BWV 1060
with Oboe, Violin and Orchestra Arrangement)
CLASSICAL
ERA (1750-1825)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Concerto in G for two harpsichords
without accompaniment, Hob.
XVIII:G2 (Published by Skillern
of London in 1782), anonymous arrangement
Nothing available
Muzio Clementi
(1752-1832)
Op.
14
No. 1, Piano Duet in C Major Sheet Music
No. 2, Piano Duet in F Major
No. 3, Piano Duet in E-flat Major On CD
Op.
Ibis, Sonata for Two Pianos in B-flat Major Music,
Herndon On CD
Op.
12, Sonata for Two Pianos in B-flat Major Music,
Herndon On CD
Look for scores in Main Library M3.1.C52 1973
CD – On reserve in the Music Library under JONES
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (1756-1791)
For
Piano Duet, Sonata No. 4, in F Major, K. 497 Sheet
Music, On CD
For
Piano Duet, Variations in G Major, K. 501 On CD
Sonata
for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448 Music, Herndon On CD
Fugue
in C Minor, for Two Pianos, K. 426 Sheet Music On CD – paired with the Adagios in C Minor (K.
546)
Look for scores in Main Library M3 .M939 1968
CD – On reserve in the Music Library under JONES
Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Duets:
Variations
in C on a Theme by Count Waldstein, WoO 67
Sonata
in D Major, Op. 6
Variations
in D on Ich denke dein, WoO 74
Grosse
Fuge, Op. 134
All Music is Available, Sheet Music
CDs – Not able to find any recordings
ROMANTIC
ERA (1820-1900)
Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
Piano Duets:
Sonata
in C Major, “The Grand Duo,” D. 812
Variations
in A-flat Major on an Original Theme, D. 813
Divertissement
à la hongroise, D. 818 Sheet Music
Divertissement
sur des motifs originaux français, D. 823
Fantasie
in F Minor, D. 940 Sheet Music, CD
in Music Library G1C SCH78C
Rondo
in D, D. 608 CD in Music Library V20C SCH78E
Rondo
in A, D. 951 CD
in Music Library G1C SCH78C
Carl Maria von
Weber (1786-1826)
Piano Duets:
Six
Pieces, Op. 3
Six
Pieces, Op. 10
Eight
Pieces, Op. 60
Look for score in Main Library M3.W4 f
No Recordings
Felix
Mendelssohn (1809-1947)
Andante
and Variations in B-flat Major, Op. 83a Sheet Music
Allegro
brilliant in A Major, Op. 92 Sheet Music
Rondo
Capriccioso for two pianos Sheet Music
Duo
concertante en variations brillantes for two pianos, Op. 87b, without
orchestral accompaniment (team composition with composer Ignaz Moscheles
[1794-1870])
No Recordings
Frédéric
Chopin (1810-1849)
Variations
in D, for piano duet, on a Carnaval de Venise theme (published in 1965 by J.
Ekier), also entitled Variations sur un air national de Moore
Rondo
in C Major for two pianos, Op. 73 Score available
in Music Library, A2SH C455B and C
Look for other piece in Main Library, M3 .C549 1968
No Recordings
Robert
Schumann (1810-1856)
Bilder
aus Osten (6 Impromptus), Op. 66 Sheet Music
12
Viernhändige Klavier-Stücke, Op. 85 Sheet Music
Ball-Scenen
(9 characteristische Stücke), Op. 109 Sheet Music
Kinderball
(6 leichte Tänza), Op. 130 Sheet Music
6 Studies in Canon Form, Op. 56 (arranged by Debussy), for two pianos Sheet Music
Andante
and Variations in B-flat Major, Op. 46, for two pianos Music,
Herndon
Franz
Liszt (1811-1886)
Grande
valse de bravura in B-flat Major, Op. 6
Grand
gallop chromatique, Op. 12 Score available in Music
Library, A1SH L6990
CD in Library G1C L699E
Weihnachtsbaum,
12 Klavierstücke
Concerto
pathétique, S. 258 for two pianos Music, Herndon
Look for other scores in Main Library M3 .L5 1968
Louis
Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Three
Cuban Dances (La Gallina, Ojos criollos and Réponds-moi) Sheet Music
No Recordings
Johannes
Brahms (1833-1897)
Waltzes,
Op. 39 (both for piano duet and in two piano arrangements) Sheet Music
Hungarian
Dances, WoOI , Books I-IV Sheet
Music Select Recordings of various Hungarian
Dances on CD in Music Library
Variations
in E-Flat on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23 Score
in Music Library A1SH B73A C. 2
Liebeslieder,
Op. 52a Sheet Music, Book I
Neue
Liebeslieder, Op. 65a
Piano-duet
arrangements of Schubert’s Ländler, D. 366
Sonata
in F Minor for two pianos, Op. 34bis
Variations
on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b Score in Music
Library A2SH B73C
CD in Library S9C B73C
Look for scores in Main Library M3 .B83
Camille
Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op.
35 for two pianos
Danse Macabre, Op. 40 for two pianos CD in Library, S1C SAI25B
Scherzo, Op. 87 for two pianos Music, Herndon
Carnival of the Animals for two pianos CD in Library, S9C SAI25A
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Jeux
d’enfants, Op. 22 Sheet Music, CD in Library S1C B552A
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Souvenirs
of
Valse
Romantique no. 1 for 2 pianos 4-hands Score
Available in Music Library
A2SH C343A
Antonin
Dvorák (1841-1904)
Slavonic
Dances, Op. 46 Sheet Music
New
Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 Sheet Music
Ten
Legends, Op. 59/I and II
From
the
Edvard
Grieg (1843-1907)
Norwegian
Dances, Op. 35, 1-4 Sheet Music
CD Band Arrangement in Music Library
B1C SMI51C
Waltz
Caprices, Op. 37, 1-2 Sheet Music
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Sheherezade,
arranged by the composer Sheet Music
CD in Music Library (Orchestra) S3C R469A
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Dolly
Suite, Op. 56 Score in Music Library A2SH F2745A
CD in Music Library G5C L419A
Souvenirs
of
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Six
pièces romantiques, Op. 55
Edward MacDowell (1861-1908)
Three
poems, Op. 20
CONTEMPORARY/TWENTIETH CENTURY ERA (1900-present)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Petite
Suite Sheet Music, CD
in Music Library CM1C D354A
March
ecossaise CD in Music Library CM1C D354A
6
Épigraphes antiques Score in Music Library, A2SH
D354B
CD in Music Library CM1C D354A
Lindaraja
for two pianos CD in Music Library CM1C D354A
En
blanc et noir for two pianos Music Herndon CD in Music Library CM1C D354A