Spring 2027

Piano Accompanying Lab

Laboratory in piano accompanying for piano emphasis majors and doctoral minors. Students critically evaluate playing, identify problems, demonstrate accompanying fundamentals, and develop musical collaboration skills.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Deirdre Brenner

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Critically evaluate playing.

  • Identify problems in music and make improvements.

  • Demonstrate the fundamentals of accompanying.

  • Show greater competency with musical collaboration through on-going musical partnerships.

  • Show expanded knowledge of and familiarity with various styles of collaborative repertoire.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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MUS PERF 201

MUSPERF 342

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DEIRDRE BRENNER is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. 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 — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Piano accompanying
  • Musical collaboration
  • Collaborative repertoire styles

Skills

  • Critical evaluation of playing and identification of musical problems for improvement
  • Fundamentals of piano accompanying
  • Musical collaboration and familiarity with various styles of collaborative repertoire

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Catalog & offerings

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MUSPERF 342 · Spring 2027

Piano Accompanying Lab

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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Model & dataset provenance 
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