FORM AND ANALYSIS.

FIRST YEAR (DEGREE AND DIPLOMA).

Mr. W. A. Laver.

1. Explain briefly Musical Form.

2. Compare the Rondo forms of Mozart and Beethoven, and name two characteristic movements from each.

3. Analyze technically Mozart's Fantasia Sonata, No. 18 (Peter's edition).

4. Comment on the chief emotional differences of Binary form as treated by Mozart and Beethoven.

FORM AND ANALYSIS.

SECOND YEAR (DEGREE AND DIPLOMA).

Mr. W. A. Laver.

1. Analyze briefly the following Overtures :-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Don Juan, Der Freischütz, The Flying Dutchman.

2. Write a short essay on the different methods of work in the operas-Don Juan, Lohengrin, Die Walküre.

3. Analyze technically and emotionally Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

FORM AND ANALYSIS.

THIRD YEAR (DEGREE AND DIPLOMA).

Mr. W. A. Laver.

1. Write an essay on the development of Sonata and Operatic Forms. State the composers who developed them, and in which way.

2. Give a brief account of Beethoven's and Wagner's emotional influence in the Dramatic forms. Quote works illustrating this.

HISTORY AND ESTHETICS OF MUSIC.

FIRST YEAR (DEGREE AND DIPLOMA).

Mr. W. A. Laver.

1. Write an essay on the Origin and Function of Music, as argued by Herbert Spencer.

2. Name the most important composers of the last and present centuries, and state in which branch of composition they excel.

HISTORY AND ÆSTHETICS OF MUSIC.

SECOND YEAR (DEGREE AND DIPLOMA).

Mr. W. A. Laver.

1. State the chief characteristic works of Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Weber, Chopin, Beethoven, and Wagner.

2. What are the Esthetic principles on which Form is based?

3. Give Schopenhauer's reason for considering the effect of Music more direct than any of the other Arts.

HISTORY AND ESTHETICS OF MUSIC.

THIRD YEAR (DEGREE AND DIPLOMA).

Mr. W. A. Laver.

1. Write an essay on Wagner's Musical-dramatic Theory. Quote works.

2. Give a brief outline of the artistic (especially musical) theories of Herbert Spencer and Schopenhauer.

3. Write an essay on the emotional significance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

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