Word: counterpoint
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted recently to offer an advanced entrance examination in Counterpoint. Yesterday the following announcement was made...
...examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied Counterpoint in a systematic course of three lessons a week through the school year, and presupposes training in pianoforte playing. As Counter-point applies the principles of harmony to the melodious treatment of the several voice-parts in combination, and as the art of musical composition begins properly with this study, the work should consist principally of written exercises on given themes, in the following order...
...Chorals and melodies harmonized, with a free use of passing notes; the several orders of Counterpoint in two, three, and four voices with and without cantus firmus; Double Counterpoint; Free Imitative Counterpoint; analysis of the Two-part Inventions of Sebastian Bach; simple forms of free composition, Organ Preludes, Two-part inventions, and part songs...
Music 2a," vocal counterpoint," is a new course, supplemental to Music...
...formerly, but deserves further notice. This department was first suggested in 1888 by the Alumni Association of Fairfield county, and in 1890 the Battell Professorship of Music was established, and the first instruction was given, the chair being filled by Dr. Gustave Stoeckel. The first subjects treated were Harmony, Counterpoint, Tones and the History of Music, sacred and secular. The degree of Bachelor of Music was established by the corporation in 1893, the course to be of two or three years. After Dr. Stoeckel's resignation in 1894, Mr. Horatio W. Parker, of Boston, was chosen to fill the chair...