McINTIRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS.
I. Art.
Art B1: History of Art: An historical and descriptive study of architecture,
painting, and sculpture from the earliest times to the present day.
Three lectures each week with required readings and reports. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Hudnut.
Art B2: Freehand Drawing and Painting: 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.
Art B3: Freehand Drawing and Painting: Art B2 prerequisite.—A continuation
of Art 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.
Art C1: Freehand Drawing and Painting: Art B2 and B1 prerequisite.
A continuation of Art B2, with practice in drawing from the life and in the
painting of landscapes. Fee $5. Assistant Professor Makielski.
Art C2: Renaissance and Modern Art: An historical and critical study
of architecture, painting, and sculpture from the time of Giotto to the present
day. Three lectures each week with required readings and reports. (B.A
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Hudnut.
II. Architecture.
Architecture B1: Architectural Design: The study of architectural elements,
practice in drawing, shades and shadows, and perspective. One lecture
each week and six hours of drawing. Fee $30. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Professor Hudnut and Assistant.
Architecture B2: Architectural Design: Architecture B1 prerequisite.—
Problems in design, with practice in drawing and rendering. Individual criticism.
Fee $30. (Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.) Professor
Hudnut.
Architecture B3: Architectural Design: Architecture B2 and B1 prerequisites.—A
continuation of Architecture B2. The design of complex structures
and ensembles with practice in drawing and rendering. Individual criticism.
Fee $30. (Credit, 6 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.) One lecture and
18 hours of drawing each week. Professor Hudnut.
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
prerequisites.—A continuation of Architectural Construction B2, including a
study of the mechanical equipment of buildings, heating, lighting, sanitation, and
electrical 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 rythmical 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 and Assistant Professor Pratt.
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.)
Assistant 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: Ensemble Course: Admission only to students who have
acquired the requisite proficiency on an instrument for which there is sufficient
available literature. Comprises one lecture hour and six hours of laboratory
work, one of which shall be Orchestral Drill.
a. Concerted playing of Chamber Music. Representative sonatas, trios,
quartets, quintets, etc., by classical and modern masters used as material for
study. (Hours to be arranged.)
b. Orchestral playing. Training in conducting, study of scores, and principles
by which conductors should be guided in the selection and performance
of orchestral works. (Pianists must be able to play some orchestral instrument.)
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Fee $25.00. Professor Fickenscher
and Assistant Professor Pratt.
Music C1: 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 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.
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 to-day 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.
Choral Singing.—Fundamental principles of sight reading. Study of part
songs and other choral works of various masters from the Netherland 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 the larger trips. For shorter trips and home concerts all
students passing the final tryouts will participate. Two to three hours a
week. Professor
Fickenscher.
Orchestra.—Provides valuable drill, routine and opportunity to become
conversant with the orchestral compositions; the various colorings of instruments
and their combinations. Concerts during the session and participation
in Choral and Glee Club concerts. One to two hours a week.
Professor Fickenscher and Assistant Professor Pratt.
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. Mr. Beard.
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 Assistant 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.
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 class-room 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 two-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. Iredell Jenkins, valuable collection
of operas and oratorios; by Professor Gardner Lloyd Carter, piano
music and books on musical subjects; by Mr. Charles Orchard, a set of biographical
works.
