The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-24

| rations and will be required to fur
| nish themselves with the following text
books: Faelten Fundamental Train
| ing, Faelten Fundamental Reader,
Faelten Staff Reader Students may
| purchase these books, unbound, at the
regular music store prices, namely
st00 each for the first two and $1.25
| for the third, and retain them perma-
| nently; or they may, in order to reduce
| the expense, take advantage of the fol-
| lowing special arrangement: Begin
ming with this school year students may
| purchase these books at the Conserva-
| tory as follows. Trainer and Reader,
bound in one volume, for $500 cash on
| delivery; Staff Reader, bound in one
volume, for s1.00 cash on delivery.
Further, the Conservatory agrees to
purchase these back from the student
at $100 for volume /, and fifty cents
for volume g, provided the following
conditions have been complied with:
/. That the student has passed the ex-
| amnations which cover the contents
of these volumes, and 2, that the vol
umes are in good condition. This ar
rangement makes the cost OF these
books, for the time they are needed.
S1.50: and, moreover, offers a premium
on scholarship. This special arrange
ment applies to these books only.
Sheet Music, Etc.--All other music
will be furnished at the customary dis
counts, which vary according to the
editions, copyrights, etc.
The yearly expense for music and
supplies varies partly according to the
Course which the student Is in, and
partly, but more especially. upon his
energy and talent. On account of the
very liberal discounts given on sheet
music the total yearly expense rarely
reaches ST.. Out of almost 300 students
last year, only four exceeded that sum,
while the average was considerably be-
low it.
Metronomes-Every student is re-
quired to furnish himself with metro
nome. The metronome is a small in
expensive instrument which consists of
graduated pendulum operated by
clock work. 1t gives the student
constant drill in perfect time and is an
ever present check in careless practic-
ing.
Testimony of Great Musicians.
The Conservatory is to music what
the college and DIVERSITY are to other
forms of literary and professional
training. The Conservatory, however,
especially in this country. combines.
also, the preparatory school where the
beginner may commerce. his training at
once under Conservatory teachers.
The testimony of the greatest musi-
clans of the nineteenth century in fa-
vor of Conservatories is shown by the
fact that with very few exceptions. all
were educated in the famous European
Conservatives where class instruction
was the rule then, as it is today.
Mendelssohn founded the Leipsic
Conservatory in 1S47 and taught there
until his death. Moscheles taught
there for 26 years, or until his death
in 1870. Hitler. Jensen, Gade, Jadas-
sohn, Grieg, Sterndale Bennett, Rein
ecke, Sir Arthur Cullivan, Richter, and
scores of other noted musicians We're
educated there, and many of them
taught there.
The same thing is true of the Con-
servatory in st. Petersburg, of which
Rubinstein was the director; Of the
Royal Conservatory at Berlin, of which
the great Joachim is the directors of
the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where