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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

fugue. The second, third, and fourth parts of this course are open only to advanced students showing special aptitude. Assistant Professor JONES. 3. (a) COURSE FOR THE PIANO.—PREPARATORY. This course is equivalent to three years' work. It includes formation and position of fingers, hands, wrists, and arms, properties of touch, principles of technique, thorough drill in scale and arpeggio playing, and exercises in accent, rhythm, and expression. Music used: Herz, Scales and Exercises; Loeschhorn, Op. 65, 66; Lemoine, Op. 37; Heller, Op. 45; Bertini, Op. 29, 32; Czerny, Op. 299, Bks. 1, 2; Bach's Little Preludes; also sonatinas and easier sonatas and compositions by Clementi, Kuhlau, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Merkel, Dussek, Diabelli, Grieg, Bargiel, and others. (b) COLLEGIATE.—First Tear.—Studies in development of tecnique: Czerny, Op. 299, Bks. 3, 4; Czerny, Octave Studies; Cramer, Etudes; Jensen, Etudes; Bach, Two-Voice Inventions and French Suites; Sonatas of Haydn and Mozart; easier Sonatas of Beethoven; Songs Without Words, Mendelssohn; Compositions (smaller works) of Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Raff, Grieg, Chaminade, Moszkowski, and others. Second Tear.—Daily technique; Czerny, Op. 740; Bach, Three-Voice Inventions and English Suites; Sonatas and other Compositions of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Weber, Raff, Rubinstein, St. Saens, Godard, MacDowell, and others. Third Tear.—Selections: Clementi, Gradus ad Parnassum; Moscheles, Op. 70; Kullak, Seven-Octave Studies, Bk. 2; Bach, Well-Tempered Clavichord; Sonatas and Concertos by Mendelssohn, Weber, Beethoven, Hummel, Brahms, etc.; selections from works of Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Brassin, Rubinstein, Liszt, Moszkowski, Scharwenka, and other modern composers. Fourth Tear. — Selections: Octave Studies; Clementi, Gradus, Continued; Bach, Well-Tempered Clavichord, Continued; Chopin, Etudes; Henselt,Etudes; Rubinstein, Etudes; Sonatas by Beethoven, and Concertos and other Compositions by the great masters, classic and romantic, both of the older and the more modern schools. Assistant Professor JONES. 4. COURSE FOR THE ORGAN.—A similar preparatory and collegiate course for the organ will be offered for any one caring