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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(3.) Arithmetic.—Fundamental rules, vulgar and decimal fractions, approximations, proportion, percentages (including interest, profit, and loss), stocks, square root, cube root of numbers reducible to prime factors not greater than eleven, metric system, areas of plane rectilinear figures and of circles, mensuration of the prism, pyramid, sphere, circular cylinder, and circular cone.

The use of algebraical symbols and processes and of graphical methods will be permitted.

(4.) Vocal Music.—(a.) Paper-work: The notation of time, tune, &c. Candidates will be expected to show an acquaintance with both the tonic sol-fa and the staff notations. The order and manner of teaching, to include the subjects of breathing, voice-training (with suitable exercises for class use), time, tune, ear-training, &c. The diatonic (major and minor) and chromatic scales. The common terms and signs used in music. The writing of one or more simple tunes from memory, also of suitable blackboard exercises for specific objects.

(b.) Practical tests: A simple ear-test, to consist of phrases to be imitated by the candidate from the examiner’s pattern, or of short passages to be written down from dictation. A time-test, consisting of a few measures to be sung on one note to the examiner’s counting. A tune-test, consisting of a short melody in a major or minor key, and introducing the common accidentals of the sharpened fourth or flattened seventh (fe and ta), or modulation (transition) to the next sharp or flat key; the melody to be sung to the sol-fa syllabus or to “lah,” the examiner giving the keynote. A simple standard song selected by the candidate to be sung in the presence of the examiner.

Viva voce questions on the notation, &c., of the above tests may be asked at the discretion of the examiner.

In certain cases, as when a qualified teacher of music shall certify that a candidate is unable, after duly persistent trial, to qualify to pass the examination in that subject, the Inspector-General of Schools may permit the candidate to substitute for music one of the Class C optional subjects, or two of the Class D optional subjects, as included in Groups III, IV, V, and VI, or in Groups II, III, and IV of the programmes respectively prescribed; but the candidate shall not be allowed, either at the same time or afterwards, to take as an ordinary subject for Class C or for Class D any subject that he has been allowed to substitute for music.

(5.) Drawing.—The examination in drawing shall be in six divisions of the subject:—

(a.) Drawing on the blackboard: A candidate shall be required to make a sketch on a large scale from an object or group of objects; to make an enlargement of a diagram of a simple ornament; to draw from memory some common object or some natural or conventional ornamental form.

(b.) Freehand drawing in outline: The candidate shall be required to make a drawing from a cast or from a photograph of a cast of an ornament, or from a diagram of a simple ornament or natural form. The drawing must not be of the same size as the example provided. No ruling, measuring, tracing, or use of instruments will be allowed.

(c.) Model-drawing: The candidate shall be required to draw the group of objects placed before him, including the board on which it stands. The group may consist of three or more geometrical models and vases (as described in the Directory of the Board of Education, South Kensington, London), or of some simple common objects. No ruling, measuring, or use of instruments will be allowed; but the pencil may be held between the eye and the object for the purpose of estimating apparent relative size.