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LOS ANGELES
BIBLE INSTITUTE
melodic and harmonic forms of the scale in minor keys. Sight difficult note reading, chromatics, modulations, and the natural , singing and advanced chorus perfect the student still further in rapid reading of notes, ear training and unaccompanied si nging of part songs. 2. VOICE Attention is given to the individual needs of each student -with emphasis upon breath control, open throat, placement, the even scale, enunciation, articulation, diction, phrasing and interpretation. Standard exercises of Root, Vacci, Sieber. Con cone, i\Iarchesi, Behnke and othe rs are used, also a wide variety of songs, with emphasis always upon the study and interpretation of Gospel music. 3. PIANO The course in piano meets the demands of a ll classes of student s from the beginner to the student of advanced stand ing. Stress is laid upon the devel opment of technique and its application to the playing of hymns and Gospel songs in church and evangelistic meetings. Standard technical exercises by Clementi, Kuhlau, Burgmuller, Heller, Rogers and Cramer, and the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Grieg, McDowell, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Sinding and others, are adapted to the individual needs oft the student. 4. ORGAN Applicants for organ study must have a certain amount of piano preparation. Special train ing is given in manual touch, pedal technique, registration, church playing and solo and choir accompaniment. Standard works are used, such as Pedal Studies by Whiting, Schneider and Buck, the Rink Organ School and the Bach Little Preludes and Fugues, Composi tions by Flagler, Gounod, Merkel, Lemaigre, Batiste, etc. l\Iore advanced students take up the study of organ son ata , concertos and other compositions by l\Iendelssohn, Guil mant, Rheinberger, \!Vidor and others. 5. HARMONY The course in Harmony and Compos iti on gives the student a thorough and practical know ledge of chords and their connec-
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