Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance...
by jcpst on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:34AM
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I could just be confused, but I thought I remembered the folks doing performance majors alongside us in Keyboard class to get prepare for the piano proficiency exam. Obviously not the Pianists- but I thought every music major had to pass keyboard proficiency.
Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance...
by hecanjog on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:53AM
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Yes, that was my experience too. Everyone needed to pass a basic keyboard skills class the first year (or test out of it) regardless of their focus in performance, composition, teaching, etc.
Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance...
by analog31 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:46PM
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It's true, but it tends to be a pretty lightweight class. Neither of my kids learned to play the piano in any useful way.
Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance...
by jcpst on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:41PM
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Huh, that’s interesting. My fellow scholars and myself found it rather challenging. Basically all students who were not piano players took 4 semesters (keyboard I II III IV), where IV prepared you for the exam.
All of us could play in a lot of scenarios at the end of it.
But it just so happened the college at the small midwestern town I grew up in had faculty from Eastman, Yale, Stanford, NW… and the music department was unusually rigorous for the level of school it was.
Most people are in the dark about what college level music education consists of. If piano was being taught in a classroom, then it wasn't a music performance major program. Also, there are tiers of colleges, and a school with an easy music program for rich kids is not unthinkable.
I have two kids who are both music performance majors in college (yes, we had the conversation about jobs), and I'm a musician myself. I learned the scales in middle school.
A remote possibility is that this is a freak occurrence. I think you can't design a training program that absolutely bars creative cheating, without also degrading the program for the majority of students who don't cheat.