Internship or externship in creative, 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: organ technique, organ repertoire, hymn playing, music theory, organ registration, and sight-reading. Includes review on many level-one topics.
Your central text will be purchased here. Earlier editions of the textbook by Paul Harker, Basic Materials in Music Theory, may be used in place of the edition listed.
Prerequisites
Formal organ training in technique, hymn playing, and registration and an understanding of basic music theory topics (intervals, major and minor scales, key signatures).
Course Outline
Manual and Pedal Technique--Review
Organ Types and Components
Music Theory: Intervals
Non-Speaking Stops
Music Theory: The Basic and Major Scales
Classification of Organ Stops by Pitch and by Family