COUNTERPOINT.

FIRST YEAR (DIPLOMA).

Professor Marshall-Hall.

FOR PASS AND HONOUR CANDIDATES.

TWO-PART COUNTERPOINT.

1. Write a part of (a) two notes against one above, (b) four notes against one below, the following C.F. (transposing it where necessary) :—

2. Write a free part above the following C.F.:

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3. Write free parts (a) above, (b) below, the following C.F.:

THREE-PART COUNTERPOINT.

4. Add free parts above and below the given C.F. :

Additional for Honours.

1. Write an original piece of Counterpoint in three free parts.

HARMONY, COUNTERPOINT, CANON, AND FUGUE.

THIRD YEAR.

Professor Marshall-Hall.

1. Write an original piece of Counterpoint in six parts, of not less than twenty bars in length.

2. Write a short original Canon in (a) the octave, (b) the fifth, accompanied by two free parts.

3. Write a fully-developed Fugue in five parts on the following subject, or an original one of your

own:

-Etc.

MUSICAL FORM.

FIRST YEAR (DIPLOMA).

Professor Marshall-Hall.

FOR PASS AND HONOUR CANDIDATES.

1. Analyze technically Op. 10, No. 3, of Beethoven.

2. Discuss the First Principles of Form, and shew their natural origin.

3. Compare the Rondo and Binary Forms as developed by Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart.

Additional for Honours.

Comment on Beethoven's "naturalism" in form compared with the tendency towards pedantry in his predecessors, touching on the intimate connection between Primary, Fugue, Variation, Rondo, and Binary Forms.

FORM AND ANALYSIS.

THIRD YEAR.

Professor Marshall-Hall.

1. Discuss J. S. Bach's conception of form as compared with that of Beethoven and Wagner.

2. Analyze at not too great length Beethoven's Op. 132 (Quartette in A minor), and compare the principles of its construction with the Symphony in D (No. II.), C minor (No. V.), and F major (No. 8).

3. Discuss the opening movement of J. S. Bach's "St. Mathew's Passion."

ESTHETICS OF MUSIC.

FIRST YEAR.

Professor Marshall-Hall.

FOR PASS AND HONOUR CANDIDATES.

1. Explain Herbert Spencer's theory of the origin of music as a means of expressing the emotions.

2. Distinguish the provinces of Art, Philosophy, and Science.

3. "From Art, which teaches nothing, everything is to be learnt." Comment on this.

For Honour Candidates only.

Write a short essay on Schopenhauer's general view of Art, and his classifications of the sublime, the beautiful, the graceful, and the charming (vulgar).