ART AND MUSIC

Instruction in art and music is provided for the accomodation of students who may wish to add these studies to their regular work in the college. Students of art and music only will not be received. On the other hand resident students will not be permitted to take instruction elsewhere than in the college. Candidates for the degree who are pursuing either art or music should take five years to their work. The instruction which is provided in these departments is upon the high level maintained throughout the institution, and the facilities which are furnished for practice are adequate to the purpose above stated. Serious and thorough work is expected, and credit will not be given for work of any other kind. Instruction will begin with October and end with May. For conditions and charges see pages 93 and 94.

ART

Instruction in drawing and painting is under the charge of Miss Schaefer, who is assisted by Miss Andrews.

The rooms assigned to this department are sufficient in number to accomodate each class with a separate studio. They are lighted from the north and from skylight, and are provided with casts, draperies and photographic copies of works of the old masters.

The Elementary Course

Elementary but useful instruction in drawing, intended to train eye and hand, is offered as part of the regular course, and students are urged to take it. It includes the following divisions: (a) Drawing from solids; (b) Drawing from solids and still life; (c) Drawing from parts of head and parts of figure; (d) Drawing from parts of figure, parts of head and block heads.

The Special Courses

Opportunity is afforded to students who wish to give special attention to drawing and painting in addition to their academic studies. Special charges are made which may be found on page 94. Students who have attained in the elementary course such proficiency as would be indicated by the drawing of block heads and who wish to pursue art work further must do it in the special courses. These courses are arranged with the expectation that five years will be required for their completion.

Beginners may be admitted to these courses without examination, but a knowledge of the principles of drawing is insisted on as a preparation for painting and, generally, satisfactory work in lower grades must be prsented as a requisite for admission to higher ones.

Course 115. Drawing from casts(masks and heads).
Course 116. Drawing from casts (head and figure).
Course 117. Drawing from life (head); water-color painting or painting in oils, as may be preferred. Composition class.
Course 118. Drawing from life (head); painting in oils. Composition class. Perspective. History of Art.
Course 119. Painting from life (head). Costume class. Composition class. History of Art.

Composition

A class in composition meets once a week. Drawings illustrative of a subject previously announced are submitted, and an informal criticism is given. The particular object of this class is to furnish instructin and practice to students who wish to pursue illustration, but it also constitutes a part of the required work of the special courses.

MUSIC

System

In this department systematic instruction is given in both instrumental and vocal music. The end aimed at is not to enable the student merely to play or sing a few selections to which she has been drilled, but to train her by careful and intelligent discipline, to skill, appreciation and self-reliance, so that she may afterwards pursue her studies succesfully without the constant prompting of an instructor; the time is therefore devoted to disciplinary exercises that will prepare the student to execute any music to which she may address herself.

Classes

Students are instructed in classes of two which are engaged twice a week for one hour. Both members of the class are expected to remain during the hour and each to observe attentively the exercises and corrections of the other.

Requirements for Piano

Applicants for piano instruction should have a knowledge of the elements, viz. notation, time, rhythm, major and minor scales, and be able to exevute easy studies and exercises by Plaidy, Czerny, Bertini, Koehler, Heller, et al., and also easy sonatas by Kuhlau, Haydn and Mozart. Applicants for organ instruction should possess a knowledge of the major and mnor scales and cadences and sufficient technical abiity upon the piano to perform a sonata of Mozart or some work of commensurate difficulty.

Recitals

Piano and vocal students are helped to acquire confidence by recitals in the parlors of the College Homes, where they perform their exercises in the presence of each othe and of their instructors and their friends.

Organ

The principal aim of the instruction on the organ is to qualify students for practical work in church choirs, and to that end opportunity will be given to obtain familiarity with the various styles of ecclesiastical accompaniment. The great organ of the First Methodist Episcopal Church is used in giving instruction to students who are sufficiently advanced, and the chapel pipe-organ for students in the lower grades.

Violin

Provision is made for instruction of the best character on this instrument, and classes will be formed whenever there are applicants.

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