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Music Facility Provides Numerous Opportunities

The music department is located in Rodman Center for the Arts. The center houses teaching studios, a practice area, lockers and instrument storage space, classrooms, a choral rehearsal room and a resource center.

The library of scores and recordings includes more than 10,000 items and ample listening stations for student use. A generous number of soundproof practice rooms are available from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, and the instruments are carefully maintained by a resident technician.

Demmer Recital Hall provides excellent acoustics for all forms of musical performance. A fully equipped sound control booth makes high-quality recording possible from either the stage of Demmer Hall or the choral rehearsal room.

The collection of instruments for use by the students includes some of the finest in every class – Bechstein, Hornung/Moller and Steinway pianos, a Dowd French double harpsichord, a Zuckerman 5-octave clavichord and a Bedient 40-rank tracker organ, LeMay string instruments and a large number of wind instruments of well-known makes. Macintosh computers with music software and MIDI interface are available for student use.

 

 

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"Music has always been a part of me, which is why I chose to double major in music education and vocal performance. I love spending my days in the music department. There is always a lot of laughter amidst the lectures. I can't imagine studying anywhere else."

Liz Nimm, Class of 2005
Watertown, Wisconsin
Music education and vocal performance major