Facilities:
The Division of Music is housed in the Owen Arts Center, part of one of the
finest university complexes in the nation for arts education.
Concert performances are presented in Caruth Auditorium, a 490-seat concert hall with an acoustical construction that can be "tuned" for any type of musical presentation; the 185-seat Robert J. O'Donnell Lecture-Recital Hall; and the Dr. Bob Smith Auditorium in the Meadows Museum. Opera productions are presented in the 392-seat Bob Hope Theatre.
Adjacent to the Owen Arts Center, the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library houses an impressive collection of almost 85,000 arts volumes, in addition to 75,000 pieces of special research material such as the Van Katwijk Music Collection. Located in the Hamon Library, the Meadows Center for Instructional Technology in the Arts is a state-of-the-art computer lab featuring some of the most current instructional software in music theory, analytical research, music printing, music therapy and music education.
The Music Therapy Clinic is a training facility that offers individual and small-group music therapy, biofeedback, stress reduction, and pain/disease management.
The Division of Music teaches and performs on more than 40 grand pianos (including Steinway D and Yamaha CFIII concert grands), three harpsichords (two double-manuals by Schuetze and Dowd and a single-manual by Martin), a fortepiano, and nine pipe organs. Housed in Caruth Auditorium, the splendid C.B. Fisk Opus 101 is a 51-stop, 3681-pipe organ used for recitals, as well as symphonic and choral concerts.
The Electronic Music Studio is a digital multitrack facility featuring the latest hardware and software on a Macintosh/ProTools-based platform. The studio is also equipped with a full range of MIDI equipment for synthesis, sampling, sequencing, signal processing, video post scoring and recording (both digital and analog).
The electronic keyboard laboratory is used for class instruction in piano, theory, and improvisation. It is equipped with Yamaha digital 88-key pianos, an MLC 100 Communications Center, computers, and a variety of sequencers, tone modules and software applications.
Student recitals and faculty and ensemble performances are digitally recorded. All recordings are mastered as a CD and are of a quality acceptable for auditions, competitions, applications and archival purposes.
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