 | The University of Virginia record January 15, 1932 |  |
McINTIRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
I. Art
History of Art B1: A general course in the history of Ancient Art
with especial emphasis on architecture, painting and sculpture. Three lectures
each week with assigned readings. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Hammarstrand.
History of Art B2: Not open to first-year students.—A general course in
the history of Medieval Art. Three lectures each week with assigned readings.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Hammarstrand.
History of Art B3: Not open to first-year students.—A general course in
the history of Art of the Renaissance carried to 1800, French Art carried to year
1900. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Hammarstrand.
Freehand Drawing A1: Elementary drawing in pencil and charcoal in
the studio. Fee $5. Freehand Drawing A2 must be taken with A1. (B.A. or
B.S. credit, 1 session-hour.)
Assistant Professor Makielski and Mr. Chapman.
Freehand Drawing A2: The Theory of Pure Design with a drawing in
various mediums assigned as preparation for each lecture. Freehand Drawing
A1 must be taken with A2. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 session-hour.)
Mr. Chapman.
Freehand Drawing B1: Freehand Drawing A1 and A2, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Drawing
in charcoal from architectural ornament and cast figures.
Fee $5. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 2 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Freehand Drawing B2: Freehand Drawing B1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—
Water-colour from nature and still-life painting in water-colours. Fee $5. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 2 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Art C1: Freehand Drawing A1 and B1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Outdoor
sketching in color in the first and third terms, studio class in pencil and
charcoal in the second term. (M.S. credit, 2 session-hours.)
Professor Campbell.
Art C2: Freehand Drawing A1 and B1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—The
drawing and rendering of architectural compositions in color. (B.S. or M.S.
credit, 1, 2 or 3 session-hours, according to amount of work accomplished.)
Professor Campbell.
II. Architecture
Architectural Drawing A1: The drawing and rendering of architectural
forms with elements of architecture. One Analytique of the Beaux-Arts Institute
can be accomplished at the end of third term by an able student. Nine drafting-room
hours each week. Fee $15. (Credit, 3 session hours.) Must be taken in
conjunction with Architectural Drawing A2.
Mr. Arbogast.
Architectural Drawing A2: Descriptive Geometry, Shades and Shadows
and Perspective. One lecture and two hours of preparation in the drafting room.
A1.
Mr. Chapman.
Architecture B1: Architectural Drawing A1, or equivalent, prerequisite.
—Problems in design, with practice in drawing and rendering. Local problems and
the analytiques and class B plan of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Required
reading. Individual criticisms. Fee $15. (Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in
Architecture only.)
Assistant Professor Disque.
Architecture B2: Architecture B1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in Design. The Class B projects, including one archaeology projet, and esquisse-esquisse
of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Required reading. Fee $15.
(Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.)
Professor Campbell and Assistant Professor Disque.
Architecture B3: Architecture B2, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems in
advanced design. The Class A projects, including one interior design problem, and
the esquisse-esquisse of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Required reading.
Fee $15. (Credit, 6 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.)
Professor Campbell.
Architecture C1: Architecture B3, or equivalent, prerequisite.—The historical
study with measurements and the drawing of a work of Architecture in Virginia
of the Colonial or Federal period. (1, 2 or 3 session-hours, M.S. credit
according to the difficulty of the subject chosen.)
Professor Campbell.
Architecture C2: Architecture B3, or equivalent, prerequisite.—The Class
A, and prize competitions of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design for the first and
second terms, and the thesis design for the third term. (M.S. credit, 8 session-hours.)
Professor Campbell.
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. Two lectures and
six hours of drawing each week. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.)
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. Two lectures and six hours of drawing
each week. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture.) Architectural
Construction B2 is offered alternately with Construction B3.
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Architectural Construction B3: Architectural Construction B1 prerequisite.
—A continuation of Architectural Construction B2, including a study of the
mechanical equipment of buildings, heating, lighting, sanitation, and electrical
work. Two lectures and six hours of drawing each week. (Credit, 3 session-hours
for B.S. in Architecture.) Elective subject.
Assistant Professor Makielski.
III. Music
Music A1: Music Fundamentals and Elementary Harmony: Intensive
drill in the underlying rudiments of Music; soliegge; ear training; sight reading;
dictation. Progressive formation of scales; intervals and triads; inversions; principles
of chord connections. Melodic leadings and metrical material. (B.A. or
B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Fickenscher.
Music B1: Musical History and Appreciation: Not open to first-year
students.—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 Music 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.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
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: Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon,
French Horn, Violin, Cello, Double Bass, Kettle Drums, and other instruments
satisfactory to the conductor. The study of scores and the direction and production
of orchestral works. Comprises one two-hour period per week. (3-year
course—B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 session-hour each year.)
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 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 B7: Vocal Ensemble: Music A1 and one year's full attendance in
the Glee Club prerequisite.—The study, direction and production of part songs and
choral works from the time of the ancient madrigal to and including the present
period. Three hours per week. (2 year course—B.A. or B.S. credit, 1½ session-hours
each year.)
Professor Fickenscher.
Music C1: Advanced Composition: Music B5 and B6 prerequisite.—Advanced
Harmony and Counterpoint, Canon, Fugue, and the larger homophonic
forms.
Professor Fickenscher.
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 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.
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 Associate 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 twelve ensemble recitals by the faculty of the Music School
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 Glee Club and Orchestra.
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 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, an Ampico reproducing
grand piano and an orthophonic victrola. A full set of band instruments purchased
and maintained under the supervision of the Alumni Association, double
basses, kettle drums, and various other unusual instruments for the use of students
in the orchestra, 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
School 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, and a two-manual practice organ in the University Chapel. The
following gifts have been made to the musical library: by Mr. Iredell Jenkins,
a valuable collection of operas, oratorious, 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; by Mrs. W. H. Sage, a
collection of piano music, violin and cello sonatas, trios, quartettes and quintettes.
IV. Dramatic Art
Dramatic Art B1: Playwriting: No first-year students admitted.—The
reading and analysis of plays throughout the year. First term: The dramatization
of the short story. Second term: One act plays. Third term: The completion
of a full length play. Emphasis will be placed on the present day life
and historical traditions of Virginia. Students from other sections will be expected
to use the materials and background with which they are familiar. Plays
considered worthy of production will be staged by the Virginia Players.
Prerequisites: Only those students may enroll in this course who have had
a personal interview with Mr. Pratt and have secured his approval of either a
one act play or scenario with several pages of dialogue to be submitted during
the spring term prior to June 10th or between September 10th and 20th. Special
students admitted under the usual regulations in the catalogue. All students
must have taken or must take concurrently English B2 or B4 or B5. Class will
meet Monday evenings, 7:30 to 10. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Dramatic Art B2: Play Production: The theory and practice of play
directing. The methods employed in the staging of plays of different periods
and types. Training in the technique of acting. The essential arts involved
and practical work in the production of revivals and the original plays
written by members of the B1 class. This course in the theory and practice
of the theatre is designed for the training of students participating in the
work of the Virginia Players and for those who plan to become directors
of dramatics in schools and communities.
Prerequisites are the same as those of B1, except that no play need be submitted.
Those interested in scenic design must take concurrently Freehand
Drawing A2. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Mr. Boyle.
Dramatic Art B3: Advanced Playwriting; continuation of B1: (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Dramatic Art B4: Advanced Play Production; continuation of B2:
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt and Mr. Boyle.
Dramatic Art B5: History of the Theatre: No first-year students admitted.—The
changing conventions of the theatre and their relation to the problems
engaging the interest of playwrights and audiences. The Greek theatre, the
Renaissance, and the modern intimate playhouse. The technique of the movies.
Modern problems: Realism, Symbolism, Expressionism, etc. The technique of
playwriting illustrated by private performances and readings from the plays of
Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen and others. Lectures and discussions. Three times
a week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Virginia Players: H. R. Pratt. Director and Manager, Roger Boyle, Asciate
Director, A. J. Barlow, Secretary and Treasurer.—The Virginia Players is
the producing company for the courses in Playwriting and Dramatic Art in the
McIntire School of Fine Arts. It is incorporated under the laws of the State
of Virginia as a non-stock corporation: the trustees: Professors J. C. Metcalf,
J. S. Wilson, W. H. Faulkner, W. S. Rodman, A. J. Barlow, H. R. Pratt and
one member from the student body. Its purpose is to develop a State Theatre
which will seek to interpret Virginia to its people through the writing and production
of original plays, and to stage revivals of classic and modern plays. Only
those enrolled as students in the University are eligible to election as Active
Members. Others who participate in the work may be elected Associate Members.
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