Richard Rephann A performance major is offered at the graduate level. Students in the School of Music may elect to study harpsichord as a secondary instrument; an audition and permission of the instructor are required. Candidates for the major in harpsichord should be generally qualified as musicians and give promise as solo performers. In addition to the acquisition of a knowledge of the literature of the instrument, students must concern themselves with related vocal and instrumental music, with source materials concerning performance practices, with continuo playing, with the history of instruments, and with general problems of tuning and maintenance. The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments offers a unique resource for students interested in the study of historical instruments. Courses in the history of musical instruments are offered on a regular basis and are taught in the collection.
				Richard Rephann, harpischord, is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of Music and the Yale School of Music, where he was a student of Ralph Kirkpatrick. He is a specialist in French music of the baroque and his annual recitals of seventeenth and eighteenth century music performed on restored instruments of the period are widely acclaimed. His interest in contemporary music is well-known, and he has given European premieres of works by contemporary American composers Douglas Allanbrook and Rudy Shackelford. Mr. Rephann appears frequently as a recitalist and lecturer, and has performed with the National Symphony and the New Haven Symphony. As a lecturer, Mr. Rephann has presented papers on a wide variety of subjects, and he has published articles and catalogues about musical instruments. He is the Director of the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments.