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III Music.

Music C1: Composition: Music B2 and B3 prerequisite. Advanced Harmony
and Counterpoint. Construction and drill in various rythmic and melodic
forms. Their use in sections, phrases and periods. Construction of song and
dance forms; the study of these and larger forms, including the sonata form,
through the works of the masters. Exercises in counterpoint of from two to
eight voice parts, contrapuntal elaboration of chorales, invertible counterpoint.
Application of contrapuntal devices in the homophonic forms. Students will
be given the opportunity to have works performed by the Choral, Glee Club,
Orchestra or Band. Professor Fickenscher.

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.