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singing and advanced chorus perfect the student still further in rapid reading o! notes, ear training and unaccompanied singing 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, Marchesi, Behnke and others 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 all classes of students from the begi1mer to the student of advanced stand ing. Stress is laid upon the development of technique and its application to the playing of hymns and Gospel songs in church and evangeli stic 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 of· the student. 4. ORGAN Applicants for organ study must have a certain amoun t of piano preparation. Special training 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 Litt le Preludes and Fugues, Composi tions by Flagler, Gounod, Merkel, Lemaigre, Batiste, etc. More advanced students take up the study of organ son atas, concertos and other compositions by Mendelssohn, Guil mant, Rheinberger, Widor and others. 5. HARMONY The course in Harmony and Composition gives the student a thorough and practical knowledge of chords and their connec-
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