1925 Cedrus Yearbook

Music Department Have you ever wondered why we are so happy at Cedarville College? Maybe it is because we have some music to mingle with our other studies. Music teaches us harmony you know. Of course you have heard of our music department, and you will hear more of it because it is increasing all the time. The enrollment of this year shows a thirty-nine percent increase over that of last year. The department is growing in more ways than one under the efficient guidance of Professor J. A. Talcott, M. A., who is now with the college for the second year. He is a graduate of the Georgia School of Technology, the Cleveland School of Piano and the Royal College of Organists of London. He has also studied voice under Charles S. Burnham and choir direction under J. Powell Jones of Wales. Before coming here he was employed as head of the Department of Music at Bishop College, Marshall, Texas. Courses have been offered this past year in voice, piano, pipe organ and harmony. The instruction in each is given individually in forty minute periods. Every effort is being made by the professor and instructors of the department to put as much thorough work into that period as possible. A public recital is given at the termination of each semesters work for the express nurpo3e of demonstrating the accomplishments of the department and giving the pupil an opportunity for public appearance. Upon the completion of the required work a diploma of graduation is presented to the pupil. This diploma is accepted by the college as eight semester hours credit toward the A. B. degree. It is the aim of all those connected with the department to create and attain an appreciation of the best and highest types of music. MM.