The University of Virginia record :: February 15, 1934

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.

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 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.

University of Virginia Library

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