MUSIC.
Course I.
Elementary Choral. Sight-singing, notation, musical dictation, voice training and part singing. Voices will be tested and classified at the beginning of each term. One credit for graduation, but no recommendation to the university.
Course II.
Advanced Choral and Musical Appreciation. Open to all students who have completed course I or its equivalent. University credit.
Musical dictation, study of standard choruses, biography of great musicians. This course will be illustrated by the Victor and player-piano and frequent recitals by available musicians and music students.
Course III.
Harmony. Students electing the course must have completed Course I or II, or be reasonably proficient in performance upon some solo instrument. University credit.
Notation. Formation of diatonic and chromatic scales in major and minor modes; consonant and dissonant intervals and their inversions; triads and their inversions in major and minor modes; a study of chord connection and voice leading over a given bass; chords of the Dominant Seventh and their inversions and resolution; harmonizing of simple melodies; treatment and progressions of Secondary Sub-dominant chords; modulation and transposition; suspensions, retardations and embellishments; chords of the Dominant Ninth and secondary chords of the Seventh from the Dominant Ninth.
Course IV.
History of Music. University credit.
An outline of the development of the art of music, including ancient music; Greek scales; church music from the time of Gregory; the Netherland School of Polyphony; opera and oratorio; the classical period; the Romantic Movement; music of the present day; biographies of the leading musicians of each period. Text—Outline of Music History—Hamilton.
Course V.
Composition. Open to students who have completed Course III.
Course VI.
Orchestra. One credit for graduation but not for University.
Open to students sufficiently proficient on piano, violin, viola, ’cello, bass, cornet, clarinet, flute, or drum and traps, in so far as balance of tone color will allow.