How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance practical exam?

Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance... by jcpst on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:34AM (#35842355)

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.

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Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance... by hecanjog on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:53AM (#35842563)

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.

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Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance... by analog31 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:46PM (#35843637)

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.

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Re:How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance... by jcpst on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:41PM (#35844135)

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.

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