Internship or externship in creating, performing, producing, or teaching applications of major coursework. This Organ Certification course emphasizes the following skills: organ technique, organ repertoire, hymn playing, organ registration, music theory, sight-reading, transposition, accompaniment, and piano technique.

Course Details

Note
Due to the numerous options presented in this course, books and scores should be ordered only after consultation with the student's local organ instructor. (The average cost for these materials is between $100 and $200). See syllabus for more details on the required materials. Students must pass all the assignments and exams to pass the course.
Prerequisites
MUSIC 071, 072, 073, 074, 075 and instructor's consent.
Course Outline
Unit 1
Lesson 1: History and Development of the Organ (Review)
Lesson 2: Types of Organ Registration and Musical Texture (Review)
Lesson 3: Chorus Registration (Review)
Lesson 4: Solo and Accompaniment Registration (Review)
Lesson 5: Hymn Registration (Review)
Lesson 6: Trio Registration (Review)
Lesson 7: The Process of Registrational Decision Making and Registration Mechanics
Unit 2
Lesson 8: The Neapolitan Sixth, Altered Dominants, and Diminished Seventh Chords
Lesson 9: Historical Styles in Organ Building and Registration: Twentieth Century
Lesson 10: Chromatic Third-Relation Harmony
Unit 3
Lesson 11:Modulation to Foreign Keys: Parts 1 and 2
Lesson 12: Historical Styles in Organ Building and Registration: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England
Lesson 13: Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Chords
Syllabus
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Textbooks
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Harmonic Materials In Tonal Music 10E: A Programmed Course, Part 1 (Required)
by: Steinke
ISBN: 9780205629718
2009 Pearson
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Organ Technique: Modern & Early (Required)
by: Ritchie
ISBN: 9780195137453
2000 Oxford University Press
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Organ Tutor Organ 101 Workbook 4.0 (Required)
ISBN: 9780728531239
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