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UNDERGRADUATE INFORMATION
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The Department of Music occupies the third floor and the east-end basement of Lulu Vere Childers Hall, the former College of Fine Arts. These facilties are for use by validated students enrolled in courses of the Department of Music. The building is a three-story brick and cinder block structure located on the north side of the main campus. The third floor houses administrative offices of the Department, a 100-125 seat recital hall (containing two grand pianos), 19 faculty offices/studios (each having one or two pianos and a computer), an organ studio, four classrooms for courses in theory, history, education, therapy, and a Smart Room (a 43-seat state-of-the-art classroom that features a console containing a computer, overhead projector, VCR, DVD player, slide projector, and laptop computer; there is also a MIDI keyboard instrument in the room). In addition, three laboratories are located on the third floor: • A Keyboard Laboratory consisting of nine electronic pianos. • A Music Education/ Music Therapy Laboratory which consists of a three room suite that houses offices, a material bank, and a viewing room for role playing. The material bank contains books, periodicals, cassette tapes, games, music, recordings, computers, software, overhead and opaque projectors, and musical instruments. • A Jazz Studies Digital Music Laboratory consisting of multiple work stations that include a computer, keyboard/synthesizer, stereo speakers and headphones. In addition, the laboratory contains recording and playback equipment. The basement area houses a band room, band offices, band storage rooms, five studios, an organ room, and 30 practice rooms, most of which are equipped with an upright or grand piano. The practice rooms are adequate in size, and the ventilation system (forced-air) is satisfactory. A modest amount of sound abatement material is installed on the cinder block walls. Recent improvements in the Department of Music’s facilities include new heating/air-conditioning units, carpeting, computers in each office, a security system, a Smart Room, window replacement, asbestos removal, painting, new restrooms, and improved lighting. The Department of Music owns 20 grand pianos, 39 uprights, 10 electronic pianos, two harpsichords, and two organs. Furthermore, the Department receives support from the area of University Services (Office of Choirs and Bands) which provides a wide range of musical instruments that music majors and non-music students throughout the University may be permitted to use. Departmental recitals are usually presented in the third-floor recital hall, and occasionally in Andrew Rankin Chapel where a concert grand and a three-manual organ are available. In addition, the Department of Music may schedule major or large-scale performance activities in 1500-seat Cramton Auditorium or 300-seat Ira Aldridge Theater. |
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