Country:
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
State:
City:
PORT OF SPAIN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Public Examinations in Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of the West Indies (UWI) was founded in 1948 as a college of the University of London. It was granted full university status in 1962, and operates in 16 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean. The UWI campus in Mona, Jamaica is the headquarters of the system, and ...
Country:
TUNISIA
State:
City:
SIDI BOU SAÏD
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Centre of Arab and Mediterranean Music was founded in 1991 and operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Leisure. The Centre acts as a facilitator of musical and cultural exchange between Europe and the Arab world. While not a teaching institution, it is the home of t...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ISTANBUL
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Istanbul Technical University can trace its history back to 1773. The Turkish Music State Conservatory was established in 1976. It has departments of Turkish music performance, composition, musicology, theory, music technology and Turkish folk dance. Apart from the professional program the music sch...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ISTANBUL
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1453, the Istanbul University gained its current name and status in 1924. The Conservatory was established in 1914 and was the first in Turkey. It was later expanded to include departments of theatre and ballet as well as music and opera, gaining its current name in 1986. There is a well-...
Country:
UKRAINE
State:
City:
LVIV
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This institution is one of the oldest in the Ukraine, being able to trace its origins back to 1796. It was granted its current name and status in 2007, its informal name being ‘Lviv Conservatory’. There are departments of singing, piano, orchestra, conducting, musicology, ethnomusicology and com...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The original Bhavan (‘Home of Indian Arts’) was founded in Mumbai, India in 1938 and has since spread widely. The English branch was established in 1972, and like its Indian home institution, is a secular non-political, non-commercial and non-profit-making institute specialising in the promotion...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
BIRMINGHAM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Birmingham Conservatoire can trace its history back to 1843. It became the music department of Birmingham City University in 1989 and later became the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. There are departments of performance, composition, early music, jazz, vocal and operatic performance, orchestral ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Kodály, Library Collections
Notes:
The British Kodály Academy is a registered charity that has been organising short courses in Kodály musicianship and choral techniques since 1983. It also organises an annual Summer School and a Spring Course as well as study tours for teachers in Keckskemét, Hungary. The Academy issues a twice-y...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
UXBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Brunel University was established in 1966. The School of Arts has areas of creative writing, English, journalism, games design, film and television, theatre and music. There are opportunities for music students to collaborate with students of drama and dance within the department of performing arts....
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
DURHAM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The university was founded in 1832 and the first music examinations took place at Durham in 1890. This is a collegiate university - the colleges are not teaching bodies, nor are they purely residential. Typically they provide a centre for students’ sporting, social and residential activities, and ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. Goldsmiths College, founded in 1891, is one of the largest music departments in Britain. A central focus is the study of contemporary musical culture from jazz to 'new complexity...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Public Examinations in Music, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Guildhall School was founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation, and is distinctive in being both a music school and a drama school, as well as offering programs in professional development and music therapy. All undergraduate students have experience of work in the community, and post-gr...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LEEDS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Community Music Training, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This music institution, an affiliated college of the University of Leeds, was founded in 1965. Formerly known as the Leeds College of Music, it was granted its current name and status in 2020. The Conservatoire launched the United Kingdom’s first full-time jazz and popular music course in 1971 an...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Music Therapy
Notes:
The Centre can trace its history back to 1959. The library holds a collection of material on music therapy as well as documentation of the work of the founders. The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy organisation employs over 40 music therapists and provides music therapy sessions for children and adults...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
SIDCUP
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The College was established in 1950 with the help and encouragement of Poet Laureate John Masefield, Lawrence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft who formed part of the Board of Governors. Currently it trains actors, musicians, directors, designers and technicians. A number of productions are staged each yea...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Public Examinations in Music, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Royal Academy, founded in 1822, is the oldest institution for advanced music training in the United Kingdom. It is a full member of the University of London and all graduates are awarded University of London degrees. The Centre for Advanced Performance Studies is run jointly by the Royal Academy...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Programs for the Handicapped, Public Examinations in Music, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Royal College of Music was founded in 1882. It houses some fine performing spaces. Students in years three and four of the Bachelor of Music program have the opportunity to study abroad for an extended period. The College has a valuable and growing collection of historic musical instruments (Wes...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. Royal Holloway, founded in 1879, was admitted to the University of London in 1900. It offers students in year 2 the opportunity to spend all or part of the year in a European uni...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
BIRMINGHAM
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Sir Edward Elgar was appointed the university’s first professor of music in 1905. The university has a department of drama and theatre arts, enabling music students to take courses in drama and to participate in opera and music theatre. Performance tuition is normally taken at the Birmingham Conse...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
CAMBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Founded in 1209 this is one of the oldest and most famous university music departments in the world. It is a Collegiate university comprising 31 colleges where students live, eat and socialise and where students receive small group teaching sessions. Each college is an independent institution with i...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
KEELE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This institution was founded as the University College of North Staffordshire in 1949 and gained its current name and status in 1962. The Music and Music Technology Department was established in 1973. Facilities include well-equipped electronic and recording labs. The Tim Souster studio is a digita...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LEEDS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University of Leeds can trace its history back to 1874. It merged with University College Bretton Hall in 2001 and music studies have now been transferred to the Leeds campus. A new performance centre was opened in 2004. The Brotherton Library includes manuscripts and correspondence of Mendelsso...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LIVERPOOL
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University of Liverpool can trace its history back to 1882. It gained its current name and status in 1903. The University's Institute of Popular Music, established in 1988, is a research centre integrated within the School of Music. The School sees its particular strengths as in music since 1900...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was founded in 1916. No aspects of Western music are studied. All courses relate to the traditional art or folk musics of Asia a...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
OXFORD
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections
Notes:
This is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, with nine centuries of continuous existence since 1096. Oxford University is a collegiate university, with 39 self-governing colleges related to the University in a type of federal system. The Faculty of Music houses the Bate Collection o...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
READING
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Library Collections
Notes:
The University of Reading can trace its history back to 1860. In 1926 it was granted a Royal Charter enabling it to award its own degrees. The Institute of Education has an International Centre for Research in Music Education. The Centre houses a range of materials for the use of teachers, researche...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
SALFORD
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1896. The Music Department works in connection with the International Media Centre at the Adelphi Building. The Music, Media and Performing Arts Research Centre has a Brass Band Research Archive, a National Rock and Heavy Metal Archive and a popular music...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
SOUTHAMPTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance
Notes:
The University of Southampton can trace its history back to 1862. The music department has a collection of historical and modern keyboard instruments, early stringed and wind instruments, modern orchestral instruments and a wide range of percussion instruments. Facilities include a purpose-built con...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
HARROW
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The headquarters of the University of Westminster is in London, but music programs operate at the Harrow campus. Facilities include twelve professional recording studios and an extensive library of pop music literature and recordings. Students have access to the media facilities in Harrow, one of th...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
NORTHERN IRELAND
City:
BELFAST
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Queen's University was founded by Queen Victoria in 1845 and was designed as a non-denominational alternative to Trinity College Dublin which was controlled by the Anglican Church. The School of Music has particular strengths in renaissance music, composition, electro-acoustic music, computer applic...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
SCOTLAND
City:
GLASGOW
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Public Examinations in Music, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The National Piping Centre, incorporating The College of Piping was founded in 2020 from the merger of two existing piping institutions, the College of Piping and the National Piping Centre. Both institutions had previously distributed their own teaching materials and organised teaching programs and...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
SCOTLAND
City:
ABERDEEN
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university was founded in 1495. There are state-of-the-art facilities for electroacoustic music, a world music centre, a theatre/concert hall, keyboard laboratory and a range of practice facilities. The Centre for Music Therapy houses many percussion instruments, and is used as a teaching base ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
SCOTLAND
City:
EDINBURGH
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1583 and the Reid School of Music was established in 1839. Individual performance lessons are not offered within the music faculty, though students are expected to find their own tutors and the university covers the cost of the lessons. This is an All-Steinway School. T...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
SCOTLAND
City:
GLASGOW
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1451. The music department houses a significant Centre for Music Research. Performance tuition is taken at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Facilities include well-equipped audio laboratories. The music library holds a collection of early Scottish ma...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
WALES
City:
CARDIFF
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1883. The Department of Music is active in the fields of publishing and concert presentation. The Library at the University of Wales in Cardiff houses the Welsh Music Information Centre, concerned with the promotion and dissemination of Welsh music. There are two resear...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
WALES
City:
BANGOR
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of Wales in Bangor can trace its history back to 1885. The activities of the School of Music cover the areas of performance, composition, technology, media and popular culture, and history, culture and society. Facilities include four state-of-the-art electronic composition studios, t...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ALABAMA
City:
BIRMINGHAM
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orff Schulwerk
Notes:
A private university supported by the Alabama Baptist Convention. It was founded in 1841 as Howard College and gained its current name and status in 1965. The School of the Arts offers programs in visual arts, music and theatre. The music school is located in the John H Buchanan Hall and offers an O...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ALASKA
City:
FAIRBANKS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university, enrolled its first students in 1922 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. It gained its current name and status in 1935 and is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. The music library houses the Fairbanks Symphony Association Orchestr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
RIVERSIDE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections
Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1950 by the California Southern Baptist Convention. Facilities include a state-of-the-art music technology laboratory as well as the Annie Gabriel Library housing the S.E. Boyd Smith Hymnal Collection. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
VALENCIA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This private institute was founded in 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney through the merger of two existing professional schools, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute. There are schools of art, dance, film/video, music, theatre, and critical studies enabling students to com...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
ARCATA
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, (also known as Cal Poly Humboldt State University) was formerly named Humboldt State University. In 2022 it became the third polytechnic university in California and was granted its current name and status. The Department of Music has many ensemble...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
HAYWARD
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This institution was formerly known as California State University, Hayward. Facilities include state-of-the-art music technology laboratories and a recording studio. The library holds an extensive collection of chamber music scores. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Personal Archives
Notes:
The University was founded in 1947. The College of Arts and Letters offers programs in art, communication studies, languages, liberal studies, philosophy, music, theatre and dance, and television, film & media studies. Facilities include the Luckman Fine Arts Complex with fine performing spaces...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
OAKLAND
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Kodály, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A private Catholic liberal arts university, founded in 1868 by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The music department, housed in the Kennedy Arts Center, specialises in performance, piano pedagogy and in Kodály philosophy and method. The Kodály Centre holds the American Folk Song Co...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
OAKLAND
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts college for women founded in 1852. In 1871 it was granted the name Mills College in 1865 and in 2022 it joined forces with the Boston-based Northeastern University to become the Mills Institute at Northeastern University, Oakland. It becomes co-educational at the graduate leve...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1925 by the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet. It gained its current name and status in 2015. The library holds manuscripts of the songs sung by Jeanette MacDonald. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
SAN FRANCISCO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1899. The School of Music houses a Balinese gamelan, while the library holds the Frank V. deBellis Collection of Italian materials (history, literature, fine arts, music), including rare books, scores, manuscripts, archival sound recordings. Member of the California S...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
STANFORD
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university situated on one of the largest campuses in the USA. It accepted its first students in 1891. The Department of Music, founded in 1947, houses a vast archive of recorded sound with some 300,000 recordings, including over 100,000 78 r.p.m. discs and a number of wax cylinders, whil...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California and moved to its current location in Westwood in 1929. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was created in 2007 with the union of three departments - the Department of Music, the Department of Musicology and t...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
BERKELEY
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1849. It became the University of California in 1868 and is the flagship campus and the oldest campus of the University of California system. The Hargrove Music Library holds one of the most extensive collections of books, scores and recorded materials in...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university established in 1880. The School of Music, founded in 1884, is organised into three divisions - Classical Performance and Composition, Contemporary Music, and Reseach & Scholarly Studies. It has access to a number of fine performance and rehearsal spaces. The music library ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
COLORADO
City:
DENVER
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
A Catholic Jesuit university founded in 1877 in Las Vegas, New Mexico and moved to Colorado in 1884. The recently opened Recorder Music Center houses a number of significant collections of recorder music and music for other early instruments. It is the official repository for the papers and documen...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
COLORADO
City:
BOULDER
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A state-supported university established in 1876 and is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system.The College of Music was founded in 1920. The music library has digitised over 900 titles from its sheet music collections as the University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collectio...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CONNECTICUT
City:
BRIDGEPORT
Special Indexes:
Library Collections
Notes:
This private university, founded in 1927, gained its current name and status in 1947, the music department being established the same year. It is located on scenic Long Island Sound, 55 miles north of New York City and houses some fine performing spaces. The Donald & Louise MacCormack Music Coll...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CONNECTICUT
City:
MIDDLETOWN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university was founded in 1831 as a Methodist institution, and became completely independent in 1937. The Center for the Arts houses the departments of music, art and art history, dance, theatre and film. There are some fine performance spaces and well-equipped electronic studios. A world inst...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CONNECTICUT
City:
NEW HAVEN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Library Collections
Notes:
Yale University is a private Ivy League institution that can trace its history back to 1701. There are three music divisions, each with a separate entry: • The Department of Music, part of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. • The School of Music. • The Institute of Sacr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CONNECTICUT
City:
NEW HAVEN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Ivy League university that can trace its history back to 1701. There are three music divisions, each with a separate entry: • The Department of Music, part of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. • The School of Music. • The Institute of Sacred Music, an interdi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
FLORIDA
City:
BOCA RATON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university established in 1964. The Department of Music is housed in the Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. The library houses the Richard and Gillian Davis collection of nineteenth century Russian manuscripts. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
FLORIDA
City:
JACKSONVILLE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university founded in 1934. The College of Fine Arts consists of divisions of music, visual arts, theatre and dance. There are some fine performance spaces. On campus is the house lived in by Frederick Delius during his time in Florida, containing Delius memorabilia. The library holds an ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
FLORIDA
City:
CORAL GABLES
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
An independent university founded in 1925. Current technological developments are used to enhance instructional and performing experiences in many programs, students having access to a number of specialist laboratories housed within the Advanced Technology Center. The Frost School of Music houses th...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
GEORGIA
City:
ATLANTA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Library Collections
Notes:
A private university founded by the Methodist Church in 1836. Facilities for music include the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts and a number of other fine performing spaces. The music library is currently building a collection of books, scores and original manuscripts relating t...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
GEORGIA
City:
ATLANTA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported research institution founded in 1913. There is a Center for Education Partnerships in Music and a Center for Audio Recording Arts with excellent facilities. The School of Music collaborates with many urban and community music activities within a very large urban district. The libr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
GEORGIA
City:
ATLANTA
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Library Collections
Notes:
A private historically black independent liberal arts college for women founded in 1881. The Department of Music, an All-Steinway School, is housed in the John D Rockefeller Jr. Fine Arts Building, with some fine performance spaces and a state-of-the-art music technology laboratory. The library hou...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
HAWAI'I
City:
HONOLULU
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
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A state-supported university founded in 1907 and gainedd its current name and status in 1972. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawai'i system. There are ten campuses spread across six of the Hawaiian islands. The music department is a unique blend of solid Western music tradition with ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
HAWAI'I
City:
HILO
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
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A state university founded in 1941 as Hawaii Vocational School. It gained its current name and status in 1970. The Department of Performing Arts offers programs in dance, drama and music, with a range of vocal and instrumental ensembles. Language of instruction is English. The College of Hawaiian l...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
RIVER FOREST
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Instrument Collections, Kodály, Library Collections, Orff Schulwerk
Notes:
A private liberal arts university associated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. It can trace its history back to 1864. The music department is housed in Kretzmann Hall with some fine performance spaces and a well-equipped computer lab. The Center for Church Music was established in 2010. It...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
CHICAGO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections
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A private interdenominational Bible institute founded in 1886. All students take biblical and theological studies. The library holds a significant collection of hymnals and there is a collection of world instruments. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
EVANSTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives
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A private university founded in 1850 under the patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and housing one of the oldest degree-granting music schools in the USA. There is an Institute for New Music. Facilities include six buildings, with 97 practice rooms, five computer/electronic-based studios, c...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
CHICAGO
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Suzuki
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Roosevelt University was founded in 1945 as an independent, non-sectarian institution. An earlier institution, the Chicago Musical College had been founded in 1867 and in 1954 it merged with Roosevelt University’s School of Music (itself founded in 1945) and since 2000 has been known as the Chicag...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
EDWARDSVILLE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Suzuki
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A state-supported university that opened in 1957. The Department of Music organises a Suzuki strings program for young people from 3 to 18 years as well as a week-long summer school in musical theatre. A Keyboard Development Program is offered to children and adults from the local community. The li...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
CHICAGO
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
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A private non-denominational university founded in 1890 by John D Rockefeller. The Department of music was founded in 1933. It is primarily a graduate school and a centre of research in music. Performance studies are not offered, but participation in performance may be taken as an extra-curricular a...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
URBANA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Engineering
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This state-supported university, consistently ranked among the strongest professional music schools in the USA, is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system. The university has campuses in Chicago, Urbana-Champaign and Springfield. The School of Music occupies several buildings a...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
CHICAGO
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
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A private college founded in 1909, exclusively devoted to music education. It is housed in a two-story building located on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. A continuing education program provides in-service courses for music educators in the field. The College was a co-founder and...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
INDIANA
City:
INDIANAPOLIS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private university founded in 1855, being one of the ten oldest music schools in the nation. The Jordan College of the Arts offers programs in music, theatre, dance, art and arts administration. The music department is housed in Lilly Hall, and has access to a number of fine performing spaces. Fa...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
INDIANA
City:
GOSHEN
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Archives
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A Christian liberal arts college in the Anabaptist Mennonite tradition, established in 1894. Students have opportunities to have periods of study abroad. There is an active opera program. The music department holds the Hartzler Collection of 3,300 volumes of early American music and hymnody. The li...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
INDIANA
City:
BLOOMINGTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
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A state-supported university founded in 1829 as Indiana College. It gained its current name and status in 1838 and is the flagship institution of the Indiana University system. The Jacobs School of Music presents over 1,100 performances each year. There are programs in wellness for musicians. The W...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
IOWA
City:
IOWA CITY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
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The University of Iowa was founded in 1847, being the State’s first public institution of higher learning. The School of Music was established in 1906 and occupies the Voxman Music Building with a number of fine performing spaces. The Division of Performing Arts comprises departments of dance, mus...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
KENTUCKY
City:
LOUISVILLE
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections
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A private theological seminary founded in 1859 and supported by the Southern Baptist Convention. The Seminary School of the Arts offers music programs and individual lessons to interested persons in the local community. The school has several early keyboard instruments and seven organs. The music di...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
KENTUCKY
City:
LEXINGTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Archives
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A state-supported university founded in 1865. The College of Fine Arts comprises departments of art, music, theatre and arts administration. In the Singletary Center are a number of fine performance spaces. There is an active opera program. The Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library and Learning C...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
KENTUCKY
City:
LOUISVILLE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
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A state-supported university which can trace its history back to 1798. The School of Music was opened in 1932. It sponsors the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the most valuable and prestigious international composition prize in the world. Past winners include such co...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
LOUISIANA
City:
NEW ORLEANS
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections
Notes:
A private theological seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in 1917. The undergraduate program is taken through Leavell College. The library holds a significant collection of hymnals and tune books with particular strengths in the gospel hymn tradition. Member of the National Associa...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
LOUISIANA
City:
NEW ORLEANS
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A private university whose history can be traced back to 1834. The music department was founded in 1909, and houses a number of fine performing spaces. A number of significant collections are held in the Maxwell Music Library, including the Hogan Jazz Archive (considered the largest in the world of...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MARYLAND
City:
BALTIMORE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
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The private Johns Hopkins University is the home of the Peabody Institute, a music and dance conservatory founded in 1857, which since 1977 has operated as the music division of the University. There is an active opera program and a wellness program for maintenance of good practices in developing mu...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MARYLAND
City:
ANNAPOLIS
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Community Music Training, Library Collections, Military Music Academies
Notes:
The United States Naval Academy was founded in 1845. It does not actively recruit candidates for musical programs at the Academy, but auditions reveal those with talent and past experience in music activities. The US Naval Academy Band in Annapolis is one of two premiere Navy Bands offering permanen...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MARYLAND
City:
COLLEGE PARK
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university that can trace its history back to 1856. It is the flagship campus of the Maryland University system. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center houses a number of fine performance spaces and houses a state-of- the-art music technology laboratory. The music department sees...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
BOSTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Programs for the Handicapped, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private college founded in 1945, it aims to prepare students for a career in the contemporary music industry. Berklee Colllege is said to be the world’s largest independent college specialising in jazz and commercial music with studies in every style of contemporary music - jazz, rock, popular, ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
BOSTON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
A private non-sectarian university. The School of Music was founded in 1872, and is the oldest degree-granting music program in USA. The College of Fine Arts comprises three main divisions: music, theatre and visual arts. There is a full opera program offered through the Opera Institute. The Music D...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
CAMBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private Ivy League university established in 1636. The music department is located in the Fanny Peabody Mason Music Building which also houses a studio for electronic music, an ethnomusicology laboratory and an early instrument room with a collection of early instruments. The music program has par...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
CAMBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
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A private school of music founded in 1915 to provide training in the French conservatoire style. In 2012 the school merged with Bard College Conservatory of Music and now offers programs in performance, chamber music, collaborative piano, composition, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, early music, modern Americ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
CAMBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
A private university that can trace its history back to 1846. It is traditionally known for research and education in the physical sciences, technology and engineering, but also has extensive programs in other areas. The Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library contains scores and recordings of music of ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
BOSTON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
An independent school of music founded in 1867. Master's degree conductors may serve mini-apprenticeships with the Boston Pops and the Handel and Haydn Society. The Conservatory houses a Sonic Analysis laboratory. It also organises an Intercultural Institute with monthly workshops, performances by ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
BOSTON
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Wellness for Musicians
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The Tanglewood Institute is the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Academy summer training program for Advanced Music Study. While not a teaching institution providing degrees, the Tanglewood Music Center holds regular one-, two-, four-, six- and eight-week summer courses for instrumentalists, conductors...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
MEDFORD
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
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Tufts University is a private institution founded in 1852. The music department is housed in the new Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center and has access to several fine performance spaces. It sees its particular strengths as in performance, composition, theory, musicology and ethnomusicology. A musi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
BOSTON
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
A state university established in 1964. The Department of Performing Arts offers programs in music, dance and theatre arts. The music department sees its strength as in jazz studies. The library holds a large collection of popular song (mostly 1900 to 1950) and a collection of photocopies of ninetee...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MICHIGAN
City:
INTERLOCHEN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
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The Interlochen Center for the Arts is a privately-owned, 1,200-acre arts education institution. Its Arts Academy High School was founded in 1962, and offers full academic programs in upper secondary school subjects as well as intensive specific programs in comparative arts, creative writing, dance,...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MINNESOTA
City:
MINNEAPOLIS
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1869. The School of Music was established in 1902. At the University’s West Bank Arts Quarter the School of Music has access to a number of fine performing spaces and a well-equipped electronic music studio. The Roy A Schuessler Vocal Arts Center houses a c...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MISSISSIPPI
City:
HATTIESBURG
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1910 as a teacher training college. It gained its current name and status in 1962. The School of Music comprises departments of theatre and dance, visual arts, and music. The University has the reputation of being one that has awarded doctoral degrees to well ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MISSOURI
City:
SPRINGFIELD
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1905 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 2005. Facilities include a number of fine performing spaces and a state-of-the-art electronic music studio in the Juanita K Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts. The Library houses a colle...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MISSOURI
City:
KANSAS CITY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1929, its first classes being held in 1933. The Conservatory of Music consists of divisions of performance, composition, music theory and musicology, music education/music therapy and dance. The Conservatory's Impact Centre (Intermedia/Music Production And Com...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MISSOURI
City:
ST LOUIS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
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A private university founded in 1853. The music department, established in 1946, sees particular strengths in graduate study, especially in theory, musicology, voice and piano. The department has access to several fine performing spaces. The Gaylord Music Library has an extensive collection of scor...