 | The University of Virginia record January 15, 1933 |  |
McINTIRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
I. History of 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.
II. Drawing
Drawing A1: Elementary drawing in pencil and charcoal in the studio.
Fee $5. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 1 session-hour.)
Assistant Professor Makielski and Mr. Munford.
Drawing A2: Descriptive Geometry in the first term and the Theory
of Pure Design with a drawing in various mediums assigned as preparation for
each lecture in second and third terms. (Credit, 1 session-hour for B.S. in
Architecture only.) Must be taken in conjunction with Drawing A3 and Architectural
Drawing A1.
Mr. Munford.
Drawing A3: Descriptive Geometry, Shades and Shadows and Perspective.
One lecture and two hours of preparation in the drafting room.
(Credit, 1 session-hour for B.S. in Architecture only.) Must be taken in conjunction
with Drawing A2 and Architectural Drawing A1.
Mr. Munford.
Drawing B1: Drawing A1, 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.
Drawing B2: 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: Drawing B1 and B2, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Outdoor sketching
in color in the first and third terms, studio class in the second term. (M.S. credit,
2 session-hours.)
Professor Campbell.
Art C2: Drawing B2, 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.
III. Architecture
Architectural Drawing A1: The drawing and rendering of architectural
forms with elements of architecture. Nine drafting-room hours each week. Fee
$15. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.) Must be taken in
conjunction with Drawing A2 and A3.
Mr. McCullough.
Architectural Design B1: Architectural Drawing A1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in design, with practice in drawing and rendering. Local
analytiques in preparation for the Class B plan work 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.
Architectural Design B2: Architectural Design 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.
Architectural Design B3: Architectural Design B2, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in advanced design. The Class A projets, 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.
Architectural Design C1: Architectural Design B3, or equivalent, prerequisite.—The
Class A, and prize competitions of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design,
and a thesis design. Not less than two years' work for a candidate for M.S.
(M.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Professor Campbell.
Colonial Archaeology C1: Architectural Design 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. (M.S. credit, 3 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
only.)
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 only.) Architectural
Construction B2 is offered alternately with Architectural 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 only.) Elective subject. Architectural Construction
B3 and Architecture B1 may be given in alternate years.
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Architecture B1: This course to be taken only after the second year
will be an assignment of additional professional work in the school according to
the individual student's needs as determined by his record by the faculty. A
with the advice of the architectural faculty. (Credit, 2 session-hours for B.S.
in Architecture only.) Architecture B1 and Architectural Construction B3 may
be given in alternate years.
Architectural Building and Equipment: The School of Art and Architecture
is housed in Fayerweather Hall, formerly the old gymnasium. The
main gymnasium floor has been converted into faculty offices and a large drafting
room for instruction in architectural drawing and design. Over the offices is a
balcony arranged for group criticisms, judgment of student drawings and small
exhibitions. The ground floor is occupied by two studios for water-colour and
freehand drawing work, the Fine Arts Library, a small classroom and business
office. The large classes have their lectures and classroom exercises in other
University buildings.
The library contains three thousand books and bound periodicals on painting,
sculpture, architecture and the related minor arts. Additional books on philosophy
of art, archaeology, the theatrical and musical arts are in other school libraries.
The best of American and European architectural and art periodicals are subscribed
to. A well-selected collection of slides and photographs for History of
Art lectures is available. The School owns an ample collection of plaster casts
and still-life objects necessary for teaching freehand drawing and water-colour
as well as equipment for instruction in various black and white mediums. A gift
by John Barton Payne of etchings by masters is owned by the University. A
permanent collection of architectural drawings and water-colours for student inspiration
is exhibited on walls. All the printed documents relating to Virginia
Colonial Architecture are on the library shelves and a rapidly increasing collections
of photographs on the same subject is being formed. Opportunities for
original research in Virginia Colonial and Classical Revival Architecture are
afforded by the neighborhood surrounding Charlottesville.
IV. Music
Music A1: Music Fundamentals and Elementary Harmony: Intensive
drill in the underlying rudiments of Music; solfegge; ear training; sight reading;
dictation. Progressive formation of scales; intervals and triads; inversions; principles
of chord connections. Melodic leadings and metrical material. No previous
musical knowledge necessary. (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
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.
Music C2: Music in the History of the Western Church: Prerequisites:
Two B courses in the School of Music or the equivalent acquired through private
instruction and study elsewhere. Open to graduates and undergraduates.—Development
of the Music and Liturgy of the Catholic Church during the Middle
Ages and Italian Renaissance. Guido, Saint Ambrose. Gregory the Great and the
Gregorian Chant. The Netherlands School, Palestrina. The influence of the
Papal Choir in European Music. The religious composers of the Classic and
Romantic Periods. Bach, Handel and their successors. The acceptance in
Protestant and Catholic Churches alike of the operatic style of religious composition
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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 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 Music, the school has two concert grand pianos, an Ampico reproducing
grand piano and an orthophonic victrola. A full set of band instruments
purchased by 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, oratorios, light operas, piano music, first editions;
by Professor Gardner Lloyd Carter, piano music and books on musical subjects;
by 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.
V. Dramatic Art
Dramatic Art B1: Playwriting: Not open to first-year students. Other
students will be admitted only after a personal interview with Mr. Pratt. English
B2 or B4 or B5 prerequisite or must be taken concurrently.—The reading and
analysis of plays throughout the year. The dramatization of the short story and
the writing of original one-act plays. 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. Monday
evenings, 7:30 to 10. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Dramatic Art B2: Play Production: The technique of acting and stage
directing. The essential arts involved in the producing of plays: scene design
and construction, costuming, lighting, etc. Lectures and practical work.
Each student will direct a one-act play and act in two others. 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 school and community drama work. Afternoon
hours to be arranged. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Mr. Boyle.
Dramatic Art B4: Advanced Play Production: Dramatic Art B2 prerequisite.—Students
who have had considerable experience in the theatre may
secure the consent of the instructor to take this course concurrently with Dramatic
Art B2.—Lectures, parallel reading and reports. Members of this class will be
assigned responsible positions on the various productions of the Virginia Players.
Afternoon hours to be arranged. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt and Mr. Boyle.
Dramatic Art B5: History of the Theatre: The changing conventions
of the theatre and their relation to the problems engaging the interest of
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. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Pratt.
Dramatic Art C1: Advanced Playwriting: Dramatic Art B1 and one
other B course prerequisite. Open only to those of proved aptitude in playwriting
who have obtained the consent of the professor in charge.—Each student will be
required to satisfactorily complete a full length play. Hours to be arranged.
Associate Professor Pratt.
Virginia Players: H. R. Pratt, Director and Manager, Roger Boyle, Associate
Dircetor, 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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