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Department of Music
History and Facilities
Music has been an important aspect of campus life at Indiana State
University since its founding in 1865. The Department of Music granted
its first music degrees in 1966.
Facilities include the new $7.25 million Center
for Performing and Fine Arts which houses a recital hall seating
175; administrative offices; faculty studios and offices; and rehearsal
rooms for bands, choirs, orchestra, and percussion. The department's
38 air-conditioned practice rooms, classrooms, digital keyboard lab,
electronic MIDI lab, Apple computer lab, additional teaching studios
and offices, and department listening library are located throughout
the adjacent Fine Arts Building. The department listening library
houses nearly 10,000 recordings and performance tapes; the Cunningham
Memorial Library additionally houses over 20,000 music books and scores,
as well as current periodicals. An inventory of over $1,000,000 in
University-owned instruments is available for student use.
Musical performances take place in the Center for Performing and
Fine Arts recital hall, Tirey Hall's State Room, and the Tilson
Music Hall Auditorium. The Tilson Music Hall Auditorium additionally
houses a 1,123-pipe, 19-rank two-manual Schlicker organ. Recitals
and concerts by faculty and student performers are supplemented
each year by guest artists and Indiana State University's annual
Contemporary Music Festival.
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