1937-1938 Academic Catalog

34 DEP RTMENT F MUSIC to practical use in figured and fr e basses, and in soprano. Open position. Two hours, two credits. H RMONY IL econd Diminish sevenths seventh. of each credits. mester. Irregular treatment of the Seventh. d sev nths and their inversions. Secondary and their inversions. onsecutive chords of the hromatic changes of single notes. Practical use new cord in bass and soprano. Two hours two HARMONY III. First semester. Chords of t he ninth, eleventh, a;nd thirteenth. Altered chords. Augmented chords. Modula– tion by means of Dominant and Diminished sevenths, Altered, tonic six-fourth chords, etc. Suspensions, auxiliary notes, passmg notes, anticipations, skip-notes, changing notes, appogiaturas and accented passing notes. Pedal point. Harmonization of chants, chorales and melodies of more elaborate construction. Two hours, two credits. ANALYTICAL HARMONY. Analysis of the chords and of the non-harmonic tones to be found in music, classic and modern. Reference: Harmonic Anlysis by Cutter. Two hours, two credits. SOLFEGGIO L Sight-singing, Ear-training, Dictation. Correlation of the Harmony I work with sight-singing and melodic ear-train– ing. Dictation. Transposition. One hour, one credit. SOLFEGGIO IL Second semester. Drill in scale and interval singing. Part singing. Rhyt hmic problems. Dictation to train the ear to recognize intervals, common triads, etc. One hour, one credit. PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS I. First semester. Primary grades. Study of the principles, objectives, methods a nd materials adapted to the teaching of music in the kindergarten and primary grades. Two hours, one credit. PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS II. Second semester. Elementary grades. Study of the prin– ciples, objectives, methods and materials adapted to the teaching of music in the elementary grades. Minor scale, sight-singing, conducting, appreciation, etc. Reference: Second Concord Series. Two hours, one credit.