1936-1937 Academic Catalog

36 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS 111. l<'irst semestei·. Intermediate grades. Study of the prin– ciples, cjbjectives, methods and materials adapted to the teaching of music in the Junior High school. Appreciation of music is emphasized. Material: Music of Many Lands and P~oples-McCcmiathy, Beattie, Morgan. Two hours, one credit. HISTORY OF l\ru SIC I. Primitive music. Early Christian Church music. Rise of the opera and oratorio. The Polyphonic age. Periods of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart. Two hours, two credits. HISTORY OF MUSIC II. Second semester. Beethoven. Romanticism. Germ.an lied. Wagne1· and new operatic tendencies. Modern music in all lands. Two hours, two credits. APPRECIATION OF MUSIC I. First semester. This course aims to develop ability to Hsten intelligently by making a study from a historical point of view of the fundamc-ntals of musical theory, the principles of musical form, various media of musical ex– pression; i. e. the orchestra, voice, piano, etc. as well as the · outstanding composus and their compositions. Two hours, two credits. APPRECIATION OF l\ITJSIC II. Second semester. Continuation of Appreciation I. Two hours, two credits. INSTRUMENTATION. First semester. Study of the instruments of the orclhestra, with special attention to their range, qualities and peculiarities. The arranging of music for the string choir. Two hours, two credits. ORCHESTRATION. Second semester. Arran,ging of music for the wood-wind choir, brass choir and entire symphony orchestrar Study of scores of the masters. Two hours, two credits. COUNTERPOINT I. First semester. ·rhe art of adding melody to melody, carried on systematically through the five diffe/rent species of counterpoint, beginning with two-voiced work and leading through the three and four-voiced work. Two hours, two credits.

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