A Crescendo Into Official Significance: Historical Foundations of the Music Department at the University of Wisconsin ? Eau Claire, 1916-1952

Abstract

In discussing the historical developments of music education throughout the United States, and on college and university campuses across the nation, this paper will explain how the early importance of music and music organizations to the students and the limited number of music faculty at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire led to college's granting of the Bachelor of Music degree in 1952 which represented the colleges crescendo into the first significant "official" validation of music education on the Eau Claire college campus.