Jury Hymn-Playing Requirements

Undergraduate Students

In addition to your organ piece(s), please prepare the following:

First Year

• Choose a hymn and play it as if you are playing for a congregation (use the first stanza).
• Using the same hymn, solo the melody in the RH, play the alto and tenor in the LH, and play the bass in the pedal.

Second Year:

• Choose a hymn and play it as if you are playing for a congregation (use the first stanza).
• Using the same hymn, solo the melody in the RH, play the alto and tenor in the LH, and play the bass in the pedal.
• Add passing notes to the hymn (fill in all of the 3rds in the A, T, B).

Third Year:

• Choose a hymn and play it as if you are playing for a congregation (use the first stanza).
  
• Add passing notes to the hymn (fill in all of the 3rds in the A, T, B).
• Play in 4 parts, but invert the alto and soprano voices.

Fourth Year:

• Choose a hymn and play it as if you are playing for a congregation (use the first stanza).
• Play in 4 parts, but invert the alto and soprano voices.
• You will be given another hymn melody, which you are to harmonize in 4 parts at sight. Your harmonization should be theoretically correct!

Graduate Students

• Play an introduction to a hymn:
  • improvise and intrada, OR
    
  • introduce the hymn by playing one voice, 2 voices, 3 voices, 4 voices for each phrase of the hymn, OR
    
  • create another appropriate introduction
    

• Play one stanza through as written

• Play a stanza with a variation such as:
  • soloing the melody
  • placing the alto on top of the soprano line
  • playing the cantus in the pedal
  • playing a free accompaniment

Memory Requirements