1924-1925 Academic Catalog

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC individuals, the course of etudes will follow the line of the Four Great C's in pianistic pedagogy-Czerny, CTamer, Clementi and Chopin. For graduation from this course a student must be prepared to play:- (a) Three Preludes and Fugues form The Well Tempered Clavichord-Bach; (b) A representative work by Schumann or a later Sonata by Beethoven; (c) A Ballade or Scherzo by Chopin; (d) A work selected by the instructor. The following subjects will be credited in this course:- Piano, Theory and Composition, Ear Drill; Musical History and Literatµre; Voice Class Work; Ensemble Playing and Accompany– ing; Chorus Singing. V oic·e Course Admission to this course will be based largely on vocal equip– ment and aptitude. Students desiring to enter will be given op– portunity to make up conditions so far as possible witliin fimits of time and schedule of work. Entrants must have studied public school music, or must have the equivalent of a two-year cour~e in Piano or other instrument. Candidates for graduation will be required to present a pro– gram comprising a standard aria in Italian, French or German; a group of 1songs selected from the works of Schubert, Schumann, Franz, Brahms, Debussy, etc., and examples of modern English and American song writing. They will be examined orally in the subject of the voice, its mechanism and use. The following subjects will be credited in this coul'se :- Voice; Preparatory Piano; Theory and Compo 1sition; Ear Drill; History and Literature of Music; Dramatic Expression; Chorus Sing– ing; Academic Subjects (Languages). Stringed Instruments Students desiring to concentrate on Violin, Violincello or Viola must satisfy the examiners of a certain proficiency with the instru– ment of their choice. The equivalent of a four-year course in Violin should prepare the student to perform a Bach Sonata; Concerto by Mendelssohn or Bruch; Concerto by Vieuxtemps or Wieniawsky and a work selected by the instructor. The equivalent to the four-year course in Violincello would make possible the student's performance of a Bach Sonata, Concerto by Davidoff or Saint-Saens, Concerto by Haydn or Schumann, and a work selected by the instructor. Summary- Violin, Viola, Violincello; Preparatory Piano; Theory and Composition; Hist.ory and Literature of Music; Orchestra and Ensemble; Academic Subjects. Classifications and Examinations As the students of this department may be of any scholastic standard it is only necessary that satisfactory credentials be ishown by those who desire enrollment to elect work in any of the branches taught. While the courses are of professional charaocter in that they aim to give the student a sufficient rounded training to qualify for PAGE J'OBTT-ONJ: