MUS 103

Major Applied Study

PIANO: First year: Student will study scales and arpeggios, Bach 2-Part Inventions, Sonatas by Haydn or Mozart, and compositions by such composers as Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Grieg. Second Year: Student will study scales and arpeggios, and literature equivalent to Bach 3-Part Inventions or French Suites, Sonatas by Beethoven or Schubert, Mozart Fantasia or Rondo, Scarlatti Sonatas, compositions by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy. Third Year: Student will study technical materials and such materials as Bach English Suites or Preludes and Fugues, Sonatas by Mozart of Beethoven, Haydn Variations, Mozart Concertos or compositions by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Debussy. Fourth Year: Student will study technical materials and such materials as Bach Partitas and Preludes and Fugues, Sonatas by Beethoven, Schumann, or Chopin, Mozart or Beethoven Variations, compositions by Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Albeniz, Prokofiev, Copland, Concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Rachmaninoff. Fifth Year: Advanced work and literature beyond senior level. ORGAN: By the end of the eighth semester, the student should have acquired the ability to play compositions of a grade representative of the more difficult works of Bach Preludes, Fugues, and Sonatas, and representative works by principal composers from the various musical periods. VIOLIN: By the end of the fourth semester, the student should have acquired the ability to play compositions of a grade similar to the Viotti Concerto No. 22, the Spohr Concerto No. 2, Bach and Handel sonatas for violin and piano. By the end of the eighth semester, the student should have acquired an adequate technical background in scales, arpeggios, bowing and phrasing, and the ability to perform works of the difficulty of the Mendelssohn E Minor Concerto, the Bruch G Minor, or the Spohr No. 8. ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS: The courses of study for cello, viola, bass, woodwind, and brass instruments follow the general outline of the violin course, and students of these instruments will be expected to acquire a proficiency comparable to that required for violin. VOICE: By the end of the fourth semester, the student should demonstrate a recognition of the importance of breath management, tone placement, vocal legato, correct singing diction, and a sense of peotic interpretation and musical style; should be able to sing arpeggios, major/minor scales, and various vocalizes as prescribed by the teacher for the student's stage of musical and vocal development; and should have covered a repertoire of twenty (principals) or thirty (majors) songs. By the end of the eighth semester, the student should be able to sing at sight a song of the difficulty level of Schubert's "Heidenroeslein"; should have sung two opertic arias and two oratorio arias in their original languages; should have a knowledge of recitative in both free and measured forms; and should have acquired the vocal and musical expertise to present a recital of 50 minutes of music representing four languages in varying styles and historical periods

Units: 4.0