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SCHOOL MUSIC.

1. High and Normal School Music.—This course will involve three
different phases of music teaching, to be treated on separate days.
One period a week will be devoted to the following topics: the arrangement
and distribution of voices; voice tests; arrangement of
programs for high school music recitations; the use of supplementary
music; the formation of school orchestras and glee clubs; the
intimate relation which should be established between high school
music and the music of the grades. Three periods a week will be devoted
to practice teaching. The students will be required to demonstrate
their ability to present the principles of school music in a lesson
to be given to the entire class, taking up the following topics:
the presentation of the lesson; the relation of what the school pupil
has acquired; the use and study of the text; the possible use of illustration
by black-board work as the basis of the recitation. One
period a week will be devoted to a round table discussion of music
in all its bearings upon school life. A topic for consideration will
be announced and such essential points as have bearing upon the
work of the members of the class will be taken up.

Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Russell. Madison Hall.

2. Sight Singing and Chorus Work.—This course will take up on
separate days sight singing and chorus work. The work in sight
singing will require the systematic reading, throughout the session,
of graded material. Its purpose is to acquaint the student thoroughly
with the notation of music, the application of words to music, and
the general problems that underlie music reading in general. The
periods on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, will be devoted to
this part of the course. The period in chorus singing will not be
merely a period for recreation, but will be devoted to lessons in the
interpretation of the larger forms of music, and will present an opportunity
for discussion of the problems connected with chorus work
in high schools, in glee clubs, and in the independent chorus composed
of members of a community. A considerable number of part
songs and choruses will be read by the class.

Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Professor Russell and Miss Russell.
Madison Hall.

3. Methods in School Music for Grammar Grades.—This course
will take up the pedagogy of school music in the grammar grades.
Suggestions will be given for the conduct of a lesson, for song study,
and for the necessary drill work to attain technical proficiency.

Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Professor Russell. Madison Hall.

4. Dictation for Grammar Grades.—This course will familiarize
the student with the scale relation; with simple chromatic inflections;
with non-metric groups, proceeding into the study of simple meter
and simple rhythm. Definite lessons for dictation will be suggested
to teachers, and the method of conducting a recitation fully explained.

Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Miss Russell. Madison Hall.

5. Methods in School Music for Primary Grades.—This course will
treat the following topics: the pedagogic principles of music in the
primary grades; study of the scale; scale intervals; simple chromatics;
outline for lesson preparation; chart and book work in the schools.

Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Russell. Madison Hall.

6. Dictation and Rote Songs for Primary Grades.—The bibliography
of rote songs will be studied in this course, and a practical
vocabulary of rote songs acquired by the class. The following topics
will be taken up: the relation of the rote song to first singing by
pupils; its relation to subsequent reading; methods of presentation
of rote songs, including the study of the poem and the study of the
music. The elementary dictation included in this course will consider
the subject for the first three years of school life.

Daily, from 9:30 to 10:30. Miss Russell. Madison Hall.

Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate—Music
1 and 2; Special Certificate—Music 1, 2 and 3; Professional Grammar
Grades Certificate—Music 3 and 4; Professional Primary Grades
Certificate—Music 5 and 6.