TRINITY COLLEGE EXAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10417, 20 July 1895, Page 8

TRINITY COLLEGE EXAMS.

TO THE EDITO2.

. Sir,—lt is not my intention to enter into any discussion ia your ■ columns respecting the papers in connection with the above exams. Miss Joel's name, however, is held in high esteem as an artist, and because of this, and also that I have a great respscb for tfiias Joel's attainments and the work that she does, I think it only right to oend a few words in reply to her letter of tho 11th inst. Let me at once say I had no intention of making the papers severe a3 models for students, aad that any rules I have broken I should not allow the same to pass with pupils. I taka it that when an unfigured basis is given any harmony can be used above it. In this cese the form was that of - a chant. Knowing the generally monotonous character of a chaat, I mada a modulation for variety. There is nothing wrong ia doing so. Mias Josl calls attention to the fact, that generally ia such papei-a modulations are marked. Tint is true when only mslody is given. The doubled third suited the melody I had chosen and therefore I ussd ii, but for that reason it need not be usad by others. In fliliug up qti36tion 1, Binocthne;s was the main object. To get what I required caused the similar motion which is objected to. The paragraph dealing with hidden consecutives can bo passed ovsr, for .such progressions are allowed, as £siss Jool herself admits.

I atn glad Mis?! Josl has augmented my answer to question S, for I only drew attention to the moat glaring errors, forths purpose of being brief. I certain!y ought nob to have omitted tha rising seventh. As to question 3. the extreme pa^ts were gicen, and it is difficult to see in what way similar motion in chords 3 and (r could hava been avoided. As to the general karzaoaisiog ol a figured bass —it is almost impossible to get two pjrsons to be aiike. Prout aay3 that ha gave a figured bass to several students. They all brought iS bank oorreccly harmonised, all different, and not one in the way in which he himself had wri&teu it for, and yet all excellent.

In conclusion allow me to thank you for giving up so much of your valuable space to my papers, and to say thai; vrbafc I bad in visw in seudiag them was to let the public understand the requirements—and also to arouse more interest in musical examination:!. Judging from remarks made to me, I baliave ray object has been attained, autl I gladly beav auy comments that may be made en the papers. Thanking Hiss Josl for her letter. —I am, &c, Dnnedio, July 13. Jesse Timson

TO THE EDITOR. Sik.—Having t&ken upon myself to criticise Mr 'JFiassoo'iS wo.'kiug of the senior pass papsr, I may as well complete my task, as will, no doubt, b? expected of me, by dealing with tha sesior honou:s payer, which appeared m yoar issue of this ojoruicg.

There are similar objections to be taken ia this paper, viith regard to tho aaswars 1, 2, and 3, as I hava pointed out ia the senior pass p3per. A special vjoinfc for objection ia anlWer to question 1 ia the bad and, iodeid, forbidden, hidden, or exoasod fifths batween the extreme parts iv tho third l»st bar. The sharp J chord in the fourth last bar should have A ia the treble, not G. This is possibly a printer's error. The answer to question 3 (the double chant) I like, except that Mr Timsou in tha second chord, for no obvious reason, has doubled the major third to tha root, instaati of the root.

In answer to question 5 (Z>), the leading note has besn omitted in the second chord. .

Tha auwrer to question 6 I cenuot understand. It is asked that a couatsrpoini; of the fourth species bs added to a given canto fermo. Mr Tiinson has added one. its much of the second species ns of the fourth. Moreover, the text books ss.y ill it if the syncopation be broken, the interpolation of the sesoad species should not exceed two minims— i.e., one bar. One of Mr Timson's iatorpolatioas extends through two bsrs. Tiis cosnterpoint at the beginning ia ix-culiar, owing to the strauge modulation which wns certainly never intended. Th-» couutsrpoinS; I cannot but think was intended to have bosu doae, and conid oasily have beea dcue, in syncopation throughout. lam &,-• Regent, road, July 13. Blanche Jobl'

P.B.—Sic&t writing the above I notfee Mr Tnafioa Las publUhad a letter iv which he mslres a correction ia quesfciou I.—B. J.

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