Spring 2027

Beginning Class Piano

Beginning Class Piano provides group instruction in beginning piano, focusing on basic keyboard skills and technical facility at the keyboard.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jess Johnson3.7/5

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.58 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate basic keyboard skills and technical facility at the keyboard.

  • Demonstrate basic sight-reading skills in diverse styles, musical textures, keys, and genres in order to become a more independent musician.

  • Apply music theory concepts to piano performance.

  • Apply principles of harmonization and transposition.

  • Employ basic skills in improvisation and composition at the keyboard.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM

  • Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM
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  • Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM

Professors

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.61 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2021: 3.50 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=18 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JESSICA JOHNSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.58 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Beginning piano
  • Sight-reading
  • Music theory application
  • Harmonization and transposition
  • Keyboard improvisation and composition

Skills

  • Basic keyboard skills and technical facility
  • Sight-reading across styles, textures, keys, and genres
  • Applying music theory to piano performance
  • Harmonization and transposition principles
  • Basic keyboard improvisation and composition

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

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MUSPERF 101 · Spring 2027

Beginning Class Piano

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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