52 WEBER ACADEMY Drawing e (Mechanical)This course presents the elementary principles of. projection, including the common conventions of mechanical drawing and linear perspective. Adapted to the line of shop work the student is pursuing. Five hours per week throughout the year. MUSIC. Joseph Ballantyne. Ernest W. Nichols. Sight Singing.The purpose of this study is to teach the pupil to read music at sight. To hear mentally a tone and be able to produce it. The year's work includes Major and Minor Scales, clefs, bass and treble, rhythmic values, pitch studies and practical singing in one, two and four parts. Two hours per week throughout the year. ChoirThe choir is composed of 120 mixed voices. Any pupil with sufficient voice qualification is entitled to membership. The choicest kind of choruses, and part songs, by standard composers form a part of the repertoire of the choir, and are sung each morning at the devotional period. A cantata, by one of the masters of music is prepared each year and has its rendition with orchestra at the annual commencement exercises. Military BandThe band has become a regular part of the musical department. Students of the Academy who play instruments are entitled to membership without charge. Students who own instruments are requested to bring them and become members of the band. Members desiring private instruction may obtain the same at a very nominal cost. Practice three hours per week throughout the year. WEBER ACADEMY 53 OrchestraOpen to all who play orchestral instruments. Regular instruction will be given. Students desiring private instruction may secure it. CHORISTER'S TRAINING CLASS. This class was organized for the specific purpose of giving young men an opportunity for a thorough musical training. The course as outlined is comprehensive enough to make musicians of the right kind of material. The course is two years and includes the following subjects: Sight singing, harmony and analysis, history of music, English, male chorus work, and practical conducting. In two years the ambitious young man should be able to read at sight, music of considerable difficulty in one, two and four parts in both treble and bass clefs. History of music deals with the evolution of music from the earliest times to the present and takes up in logical order a biography of the greatest composers of the past and present with their chief personal characteristics and the distinguishing features of their music. Harmony includes the study of intervals, scales, trials of all kinds and the rules for their connection. Modulation, suspensions, retardations and finally, analysis of music and composition. The second season themes will be composed and harmonized by members of the class, and works of modern musicians, taken up from an analytical standpoint. The second year members of the class will also have the practical experience of conducting by directing, in turn the chorus work.