1938-1939 Academic Catalog

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 37 FORM AND ANALYSIS I. First semester. Analysis of composition from simple song form through the sonata form. One hour, one credit. FORM AND ANALYSIS II. Second semester. Analysis of !fugal music, the suite, the fantasia, chamber music, symphony and overtures. One hour one credit. APPLIED MUSIC Piano.--Tunior Department. Students who have had no previous musical training may take private lessons. Credit is not given for this training until the student has gained a certain amount of proficiency. School children are given careful train– ing. They appear on recitals three times a year. Collegiate Department. Students who show a talent for music, and who show an abflity equal to three years of prepara– tion may enter this department for credit from the college. Thorough training in scales, a course in Etudes from Czerny to Clementi's Gradus and Parnassum, Bach's well-tempered Clavichord. Etudes and Preludes of Chopin, sonatas of Beethoven, selections from the Romantic and Modern composers are used during the four years to develop an ability for public performance and to acquaint the student with the best piano literature. V oice.--Tunior Department. A course for younger stu– dents whose voices have not fully developed. In order that the voice may develop naturally without strain or injury to the voice, simple exercises for breath control, freedom of the articulating organs and resonance of tone are given. Collegiate Department. Admission to this course will be based largely on the vocal equipment and aptitude of the student. Entrants must be able to pl~y a simple accompaniment. Vocal– ises by Sieber and Concone, folk songs, German lied, operatic and oratorio arias, study of the recitative, American, English, French, Italian and classic German song.s, are used to aid the student in forming a repertoire for the home, church or concert stage. Pipe Organ.-Pre-requisite. Intermediate piano course or its equivalent. Pedal studies by Schneider, Bach's Preludes and Fugues, Guilmant's and Widors sonatas, compositions by Baptiste, Lemare, Buck, Capocci, Mailly, Gounod, Dubois, Faure, Lemaigre, Salome, etc.