Internship or externship in creating, performing, producing, or teaching applications of major course work. Designed to provide motivation, direction, and instruction for organists to improve their skills in specific areas such as organ technique, organ repertoire, hymn playing, music theory, organ registration, and sight-reading. Includes a review of many level-one topics.

Course Details

Note
Earlier editions of the textbook by Paul Harker, Basic Materials in Music Theory, may be used in place of the edition listed. Students must pass all the assignments and exams to pass the course.
Prerequisites
Formal organ training in technique, hymn playing, and registration
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Manual and Pedal Technique--Review
Lesson 2: Organ Types and Components
Lesson 3: Music Theory: Intervals
Lesson 4: Non-Speaking Stops
Lesson 5: Music Theory: The Basic and Major Scales
Lesson 6: Classification of Organ Stops by Pitch and by Family
Lesson 7: Hymn Registration
Lesson 8: Music Theory: The Minor Scales
Lesson 9: Solo and Accompaniment Registration
Lesson 10: Music Theory: Key Signatures
Lesson 11: Decision Making and Score Preparation
Syllabus
Textbooks
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Alfred's Basic Piano Course: Lesson Book - Level 3 (BK. 3) (Required)
by: Willard A. Palmer , Morton Manus , et al.
ISBN: 9780882848150
1982 Alfred Pub Co
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Basic Materials in Music Theory: A Programmed Course, 10th Edition (Book Only) (Required)
by: Paul O. Harder , Greg A. Steinke , et al.
ISBN: 9780130993335
2002 Prentice Hall
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Basic Organ Technique (Required)
by: Keeler
ISBN: 9780932858030
1998 Theodore Presser Co
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Organ Tutor Organ 101 Workbook 4.0 (Required)
ISBN: 9780728531239
BYU
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Seventy-Nine Chorales for the Organ, Op. 28 (Belwin Edition (H. W. Gray)) (Required)
by: Marcel Dupré
ISBN: 9780769241951
1985 Alfred Music
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The Organists' Manual: Technical Studies & Selected Compositions for the Organ (Required)
by: Roger E. Davis
ISBN: 9780393954616
1985 W. W. Norton & Company
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