Catalog, 1958-1959 - Hoover Library

Western Maryland College 1957
menr of Music. Credits may be distributed in any division of
applied music 35 follows:
First year: one semester hour each semester.
Second year: one or two semester hours each semester.
Third year: one to three semester hours each semester.
Fourth year: one to three semester hours each semester.
A student is expected to practice at least one hour a day
each semester hour of credit.
for
In order LO rank as a senior majoring in a division of ap·
music, the student must have completed at least ten
plied
semester hours in that division the end of the junior year. A
by
public recital must be given the senior year.
in
PIANO
Students are accepted in all stages of proficiency, but in
LO receive credit toward the degree, they must be sufficiently
order
advanced to study Bach dance movements or two part inven-
tions and sonatinas or sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven.
Students majoring in piano are required to study, in the
junior and senior years, the Bach Well-Tempered Clavichord and
sonatas and pieces of corresponding grade by composers the of
preclassic. classic, romantic, and modern schools.
Sixteen semester hours credit in piano are required for a
piano major.
VOICE
Students are accepted in all stages of proficiency, but in order
to receive credit toward the degree they must be sufficiently
advanced to read music of moderate difficulty.
Advanced interpretation of song literature in the fields of
song. oratorio, and opera is required in senior year of
art the
students majoring in voice.
Sixteen semester hours credit in voice are required for a
major. Students majoring voice must be able play
voice in to
piano accompaniments of moderate difficulty.
ORGAN
Ability to play piano music of moderate difficulty is required
of students who wish to receive instruction in organ.
Students majoring in organ are required to study, in rhe
junior and senior years, important works of Bach. Franck, Mendelssohn,
wider, and modern composers.
Sixteen semester hours credit in organ are required for an
organ major.
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