Excerpt from 46th Annual Prospectus: 1914 1915

The class system of music teaching is no longer an experiment. It has demonstrated its superiority. The tendency of the day is distinctly in this direction, a fact which is shown by thegrowth and development of musical conservatories everywhere. The advantages, the spirit of emulation inspired. The interchange of ideas, the development of intelligent criticism, are so well known that they need not be repeated. The school system of teaching music has proven its superiority over individual teaching because it is a broader, bigger plan. No one instructor can offer every desirable quality. In a school, however, with its carefully selected corps of instructors, every desirable quality can be obtained. Every recommendation in favor of school teaching for other branches is equally true when applied to music. Class teaching differs from private teaching only in the many advantages offered. Each pupil is examined in the studies Which he wishes to pursue, and is assigned to the class or grade to which he may belong, the other members of the class being of the same degree of proficiency. Lower classes are limited to four pupils, the higher classes to three.

The greater part of one of the weekly lessons is usually given to what are commonly known as exercises, or, more properly speaking, etudes; the other part to pieces. 'two pianos are used, two pupils working on the lesson at once, while' the other two profit by listening and criticising. In technical work all four pupils perform at once. The results are emu lation, ambition and self-reliance-such as can be shown by no private work.

The philadelphia musical academy offers the music student the best instru'ction that can be obtained. It has always placed true artistic merit above every other consideration, and by steadily adhering to this principle has established its reputation as an institution of the first rank. The course of study is planned on the broadest lines, with a view to fitting its pupils for careers as artists and teachers. From year to year its faculty has been strengthened, its methods made more scientific, its course of instruction more comprehensive and progressive, and today its curriculum insures the best results from the beginning to the free development of artistic require ment.

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