University of Virginia Library

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. Assistant 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 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.