University of Virginia Library

McINTIRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

Music

Music C1: Advanced Composition: Music B5 and B6 prerequisite.—Advanced
Harmony and Counterpoint, Canon, Fugue, and the larger homophonic
forms. Professor Fickenscher.

Music C5: Musical Criticism: Appreciation and Analysis: Study of
the lives and works of the pioneers only. The recurring "Modernistic" movements
from early times to the ultra modern music of today with the continually
developing harmonic consciousness of the race. The great religious composers.
The development and analysis of the sonata, symphony, and other forms. Tendencies
of modern music. Associate Professor Pratt.

Equipment.—The work offered re-establishes the instruction outlined in
the first curriculum of the University, 1818, the earliest proposal for instruction
in art, architecture, and music in any American university. An unrivalled background
is provided for it by the buildings and environment of Charlottesville;
the University group, with its old buildings specially designed to furnish examples
of the various orders "as specimens for the architectural lectures," its new
buildings designed by Stanford White; the works of sculpture by Houdon, Ezekiel,
Bitter, Borglum, Keck, Shrady, and Aitken; the paintings and prints presented
by Messrs. Thomas F. Ryan, John Barton Payne, John Armstrong Chaloner
and others; the concerts and exhibitions of paintings brought to the University
with part of the income of the McIntire fund. For the current work in
Art and Architecture there is generous provision of casts, books, photographs
and lantern slides. For music, the school has two concert grand pianos for its
use in the classroom and for ensemble recitals, and double bass and kettle drums
for the use of the students in the orchestra, a full set of band instruments purchased
and maintained under the supervision of the Alumni Association, a comprehensive
library of chamber music, orchestral scores and parts, operas and piano
classics as well as books of reference on musical subjects and collateral reading.
There are also available for the Music Department a three-manual Skinner
organ in Cabell Hall and a three-manual Moeller organ, the gift of Paul Goodloe
McIntire in connection with the McIntire amphitheatre. The following
gifts have been made to the musical library: by Mr. Iradell Jenkins, valuable
collection of operas and oratorios, light operas, piano music, first editions; by
Professor Gardner Lloyd Carter, piano music and books on musical subjects;
by Mr. Charles Orchard, a set of biographical works.