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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

in the lives of the composers. Assigned collateral readings. Fall, winter, and spring terms, three-fifths credit. Miss PUTNAM.

2. THEORY OF MUSIC.—a. A course in harmony, two hours a

week, in class, through four terms. Emery's Harmony with additional exercises. Weitzman's Theory of Music. Four credits. b. A course in counterpoint, two hours a week in ciass through two terms. Richter's Counterpoint. One credit. c. A course in fugue, two hours a week in class through two terms. Richter's Fugue. One credit. d. A course in musical analysis which may be taken at the same time with the studies in counterpoint and fugue. The second, third, and fourth parts of this course are open only to advanced students showing special aptitude. One credit. Miss PUTNAM.

3. COURSE FOR THE PIANO.—(a) 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. Miss Fox. (b) Collegiate. First year. Studies in development of technique: 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. Professor JONES and Miss Fox. Second Year. Daily technique; Czerny, Op. 740; Bach, ThreeVoice Inventions and English suites; sonatas and other compositions of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Weber, Raff, Rubinstein, St. Saens, Godard, MacDowell, and others. Professor JONES and Miss Fox. Third Year. 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.

Professor JONES.