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McINTIRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

I. Art

History of Art B1: An historical and descriptive study of architecture,
painting, and sculpture in ancient times. An introduction to the technique
of the arts. Three lectures each week with assigned readings and reports.
(B.A or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Kocher.

History of Art B2: An historical and descriptive study of architecture,
painting, and sculpture from the reign of Constantine (330 A. D.) to the
beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and
Early Renaissance Art. Three lectures each week with assigned readings
and reports. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Kocher. History
of Art B2 is given alternately with History of Art B3. In 1927-28 History
of Art B3 will be offered.

History of Art B3: An historical and critical study of architecture,
painting, and sculpture from the beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the
present day. Renaissance and Modern Art in Italy, France, Spain, England.
Germany, and in the United States. Three lectures each week and
assigned readings. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Kocher.
History of Art B2 and History of Art B3 are given alternately. In 1927-28
History of Art B2 will not be given.

Freehand Drawing B1: Practice in drawing out of doors and in the
studio, with pencil, pen, charcoal, and brush. Fee $5. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
2 session-hours.) Assistant Professor Makielski.

Freehand Drawing B2: Freehand Drawing B1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—A
continuation of Freehand Drawing B1, with practice in drawing in
color from still life and from nature. Fee $5. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 2 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Makielski.

Freehand Drawing B3: Freehand Drawing B1 and B2, or equivalent, prerequisite.—A
continuation of Freehand Drawing B2, with practice in painting


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from landscape and from the figure. Fee $5. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 2 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Makielski.

Summer Quarter 1926

Art sB2: Freehand Drawing. First Term. 1 session-hour. Mr. Makielski.

Art sB3-I: Painting. First Term. 1 session-hour. Mr. Makielski.

Art sB3-II: Portrait Painting. First Term. 1 session-hour. Mr.
Wight.

II. Architecture

Architectural Drawing A1: An introduction to the study of architectural
design, with practice in drawing. In the first term, descriptive geometry and
practice in mechanical drawing; in the second term, shades and shadows and
practice in drawing the orders; in the third term, perspective, and the study of
additional architectural elements. Throughout the year, practice in drawing
and rendering. 2 session-hours. Fee $15. Mr. von Storch.

Architecture B1: Architectural Drawing A1 or equivalent, prerequisite.
—Problems in design, with practice in drawing and rendering. The analytiques
and esquisse-esquisse of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Individual criticisms.
Fee $15. (Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.) Mr.
von Storch.

Architecture B2: Architecture B1 or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in Design. The Class B projects and esquisse-esquisse of the Beaux-Arts Institute
of Design. Fee $15. (Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture
only.) Professor Kocher.

Architecture B3: Architecture B2 or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in advanced design. The Class A projects, including one archeology project,
and the esquisse-esquisse of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Fee $15.
(Credit, 6 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.) Professor Kocher.

Architectural Construction B1: The technique of building construction,
including the study of materials and methods. Practice in the preparation of
workings and details. Wood, masonry, and steel structures. (Credit, 3 session-hours
for B.S. in Architecture.) Two lectures and six hours of drawing each
week. Assistant Professor Makielski.

Architectural Construction B2: Architectural Construction B1 prerequisite.—A
continuation of Architectural Construction B1, including the preparation
of working drawings and specifications for more complex structures than
those studied in the previous course. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.)
Two lectures and six hours of drawing each week. Assistant Professor
Makielski.

Architectural Construction B3: Architectural Construction B2 and B1
prerequisite.
—A continuation of Architectural Construction B2, including a study
of the mechanical equipment of buildings, heating, lighting, sanitation, and electrical


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work. (Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.) Two lectures
and eight hours of drawing each week. Assistant Professor Makielski.

III. Music

Music A1: For Beginners: Rudiments of notation, musical symbols,
intervals, chord and scale formations. The study of rhythmical valuation, dynamics,
ear training, sight reading and writing from dictation.

Sight reading will embrace exercises in major, minor, modal and modern
tonalities in from one to four parts and in harmonic and polyphonic treatment
of varied rhythmical formation. Tu., Thu., Sat., 12:30—with an additional 3
hours of practice in Choral, Glee, Orchestra or Band. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Professor Fickenscher.

Music B1: Musical History and Appreciation: The development of
music from antiquity to the present time with typical examples of each phase.
Illustrations and analysis of works of the epoch makers, treating of their
style, influence and historic import. The development of musical instruments
and of the orchestra. Illustrated lectures. Collateral reading. No previous
musical knowledge required. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate
Professor Pratt.

Music B2: Harmony: Students taking this course are required to have
had ear training and a preliminary knowledge of musical notation, intervals
and scale formation, or to take concurrently A1. Also to have or to acquire
sufficient piano technique to play simple chord successions. Harmonic relationships
and their tendencies, construction of chords, voice progressions, dissonances,
suspensions, sequences, cadences, the pedal point and modulation. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Fickenscher.

Music B3: Counterpoint: Students taking this course are required to
have had ear training and a preliminary knowledge of musical notation, intervals,
and scale formation or to take concurrently Music A1. Counterpoint
from the First to the Fifth Species in two, three, and four parts; combined
counterpoint. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Fickenscher.

Music B4: Orchestra: Credit to students who have the requisite technical
ability on the following instruments, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon,
French Horn, Violin, Cello, Double Bass, Kettle Drums, and other instruments
satisfactory to the conductor. Comprises six hours' orchestral study and six
hours' individual practice, or four hours' orchestral study, one lecture hour and
six hours' individual practice. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor
Fickenscher.

Students or others not desiring the course for credit are invited to join the
orchestra.

Music B5: Composition: Music B2 and B3 prerequisite.—Advanced
Harmony and Counterpoint. Construction and drill in various rhythmic 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


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form, through the works of the masters. 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. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor Pratt.

Music B6: Orchestration: Music B5 prerequisite.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor Pratt.

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.

Choral Singing.—Fundamental principles of sight reading. Study of
part songs and other choral works of various masters from the Netherlands
School to the present day. Three concerts during the Academic year. One to
two hours a week. Professor Fickenscher.

Glee Club.—Study of a cappella and accompanied choruses both classic
and of a lighter character. Students with reading knowledge of music will be
given a preference. Also those playing an instrument which can be of service
in the Glee Club orchestra. As large a group as is financially possible will be
taken on longer trips. For shorter trips and home concerts all students passing
the final tryouts will participate. Two to three hours a week. Professor
Fickenscher.

Band.—Membership determined by competition. Instruments are loaned
without charge. Members have admission to home and out-of-town games. The
organization represents not only a most necessary factor of the student life but
offers also valuable training and opportunity for gaining a knowledge of the
various wind instruments. Concerts are given during the session. Two hours
a week.

Technical Training.—Technical training under special instructors in
Singing, Pianoforte, Organ, Violin, 'Cello, Clarinet and other wind instruments.
University students may arrange for tuition in these branches at a reduction
in rates by application to Professor Fickenscher or Professor Pratt.

Concerts.a. A series of five concerts by artists of international reputation
at moderate prices gives opportunity for extended musical knowledge and
appreciation.

b. A series of fifteen ensemble recitals by the faculty of the Music Department
affords opportunity for intimate acquaintance with the best in musical
literature and through familiarity to become intelligent in appreciation of
the masters.


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c. Concerts by the Albemarle Choral Club, Glee Club, Orchestra, and
University Band.

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 Garder Lloyd Carter, piano music
and books on musical subjects; by Mr. Charles Orchard, a set of biographical
works.