Facilities

The School of Music is located in Ed Landreth Hall and the Mary D. and F. Howard Walsh Center for the Performing Arts. The Ed Landreth building includes teaching, practice, and rehearsal facilities and a 1200-seat auditorium with superb acoustics. Resources include numerous upright and grand pianos; four pipe organs; two harpsichords; a clavichord; a collection of authentic Baroque instruments; the Upchurch Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music; The John Large Vocal Arts Laboratory; and other instrumental collections.

The Walsh Center is home to the unique 325-seat PepsiCo Recital Hall, which is known for its unprecedented acoustical design. The Walsh building also contains an instrumental rehearsal hall, a choral rehearsal hall, and a piano facility furnished exclusively with Steinway pianos. This facility includes: five teaching studios, eight practice rooms, and an electronic piano laboratory.

A large, comprehensive music library complete with recordings, reference books, texts, scores and listening rooms is housed in the Mary Couts Burnett Library.

Resources for the piano pedagogy program are located in both Ed Landreth Hall and the Mary D. and F. Howard Walsh Center for Performing Arts.  State-of-the-art teaching equipment and materials are accessible to piano pedagogy students and piano preparatory teachers including computer software, MIDI accompaniment disks, the Roland MT 90S Sequencer, Yamaha Disklavier and digital video recording equipment.

The Piano Pedagogy Resource Center
The Piano Pedagogy Resource Center, located in Walsh 136,  is designed to provide a place for piano pedagogy students to study, practice, prepare course projects, and prepare teaching assignments.  The Center provides ever expanding variety of teaching materials and standard literature and provides the focal point for the piano pedagogy courses and student teaching experiences.   The Center also provides access to a Steinway piano, computers, a stereo, and DVD/VCR monitors.  

The Music Preparatory Library
The music preparatory library houses a wide variety of teaching and standard literature which serves as a reference library to all music prep teachers.  Music holdings include average-age beginner methods, graded solos, supplementary collections by educational composers, collections of standard piano repertoire, ensemble literature, Christmas music, and hymn arrangements. Materials for sight reading, technique, theory and ear training are also available.

The Music Preparatory Computer Lab
Computer lab sessions are available to students enrolled in the music prep department.  A variety of popular music theory software and Midi accompaniments are housed in the computer lab.  

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