Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEBRASKA
City:
LINCOLN
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1869. Its School of Music was founded in 1894 and is housed in the Westbrook Music Building with access to a number of fine performance venues including the Kimball Recital Hall and the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Perfo...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW HAMPSHIRE
City:
DURHAM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1866 as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. It gained its current name and status in 1923. The Dimond Library contains the New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz Archive, with over 20,000 recordings and 1,000 books and is availab...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW JERSEY
City:
PRINCETON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Ivy League university. Princeton can trace its history back to 1746. It is the fourth oldest college in British North America. The Department of Music is housed in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies. Within the department the principal emphasis focuses on musicology and composition, ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW JERSEY
City:
NEW BRUNSWICK
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university. Rutgers, with its three campuses – at Camden, New Brunswick and Newark, - was chartered in 1766. Its main campus is in New Brunswick. The Mason Gross School of the Arts, chartered in 1976, comprises divisions of dance, music, theater arts and visual arts, and has acce...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW JERSEY
City:
LAWRENCEVILLE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Westminster Choir College, founded in 1926, has since 1992 formed the School of Music of Rider University. Emphasis at the residential college is on training in choral music, both secular and sacred, with the aim of preparing its graduates for music leadership in churches, schools and the commun...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
BROOKLYN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A College of the City University of New York, founded in 1930. There is an annual calendar of over 100 public concerts and recitals of repertory from early music to contemporary, presented in the College’s Center for the Performing Arts and other fine performing spaces. The new Leonard & Clair...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections
Notes:
This is the doctorate-granting graduate school of the City University of New York. It was founded in 1961. Students at the Center have access to state-of-the-art electronic music studios, to the Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ collection of some 4,000 musical instruments, and to the Music Division of...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
FLUSHING
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Suzuki, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The City University of New York (CUNY) was founded in 1961. It consists of 20 Colleges at which music is offered in eleven. Queens College, itself founded in 1937, became part of the City University of New York in 1961. The School of Music has access to several fine performance spaces, including tho...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Library Collections
Notes:
A graduate college of Columbia University, providing both day and evening courses. It was founded in 1887 and became affiliated in 1898 with Columbia University. There is a Creative Arts Laboratory for the preparation of teachers of economically disadvantaged and educationally challenged students to...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Ivy League university founded in 1754, being the oldest institute of higher learning in New York State. The music department was established by Edward MacDowell in 1896. Undergraduate music programs are taken at the affiliated Barnard College, Columbia Teachers’ College, the School of Ge...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
ITHACA
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A privately-endowed Ivy League university founded in 1865. The first chair of musicology in an American university was created at Cornell in 1930. Master’s degrees are not considered terminal degrees at Cornell; they are earned during the programs leading to doctoral degrees. The University is th...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
ROCHESTER
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921. Ensembles include three symphony orchestras, three choral groups, seven jazz ensembles, two wind ensembles, a student-run contemporary music ensemble (’Ossia’), Musica Nova (a contemporary ensemble), Collegium Musicum (early music), trombone choir...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections
Notes:
The College was founded in 1875, and is the oldest institution of higher Jewish education in USA. The School of Sacred Music was founded in 1948 to train men and women to be cantors for Jewish worship centres. At the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Program studies are offered in two...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
ITHACA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private college founded in 1892 as a music conservatory. Since that time the college has developed into a comprehensive institution comprising Schools of Business, Communications, Health Sciences and Human Performance, Humanities and Sciences as well as the School of Music which is housed in the J...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The H L Miller Cantorial School and List College of Jewish Music of the Jewish Theological Seminary are two schools devoted to Jewish musical studies. List College was founded in 1886. Among other things it provides training for cantors (hazzanim) for the congregational service or as teachers of Jew...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private school founded in 1905. There are divisions of music, dance and drama. The emphasis throughout is on performance and the School has access to a number of fine performance spaces. An Institute of Jazz Studies was created in 2001. The Juilliard Opera Center trains opera singers. There is a C...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Originally founded in 1916 as The David Mannes Music School, and following a number of name and location changes, this institution in 1989 joined The New School, a private research university in New York City as part of The New School's College of Performing Arts, alongside The New School for Drama ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
BUFFALO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
Notes:
This institution was founded in 1846 as a private medical college, and merged with the State University of New York system in 1962. It is the flagship campus of the State University of New York system and is not to be confused with Buffalo University College which is also part of SUNY. The music dep...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
BINGHAMTON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
The university was founded in 1946 and gained its current name and status in 1965. The Anderson Center for the Performing Arts is among the finest facilities of its kind in central New York State. The university library holds an archive for Greek and Cypriot Ethnomusicological Studies. Member of the...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This institution, now known as the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, was founded in 1890 and is the first school of pedagogy to be established at an American university. Earlier known as New York University School of Education, it was given its current name and status i...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
POUGHKEEPSIE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1861 as a women's college. It became co-educational in 1969. The music department, formed in 1865, has 65 Steinway pianos and seven pipe organs, and has access to some fine performing spaces. There is an active opera program. The George Sherman Dickinson mus...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
DURHAM
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections
Notes:
This private university can trace its history back to 1838 and has historic ties to the United Methodist Church. It gained its current name and status in 1924. The music department has strengths in musicology and theory/composition. The G Norman and Ruth G Eddy Collection of Music Instruments compr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
WINSTON-SALEM
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Orff Schulwerk, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private liberal arts residential college for undergraduate women, and co-educational for graduate studies in education and music. It is affiliated with the Moravian Church and is one of the oldest fully accredited professional music schools in the USA, tracing its history back to 1766. The music p...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
WINSTON-SALEM
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Suzuki
Notes:
Formerly known as the North Carolina School of the Arts, this institution gained its current name and status in 2008. It is organised into schools of dance, design and production, drama, film, music and visual arts. It forms part of the 16-campus university that makes up the University of North Caro...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
CHAPEL HILL
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
The university can trace its history back to 1789. It is the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina system. The music library houses a vast collection of books, scores, audio and video recordings as well as over 10,000 rare items, including 4,600 Italian opera libretti from 1600 to the...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
GREENSBORO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1891 and forming part of the 16-campus university that makes up the University of North Carolina. The School of Music is housed in a large purpose-built music building with access to several fine performing spaces. The Miles Davis jazz Studies Program offers s...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
WINSTON-SALEM
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private non-sectarian liberal arts university founded in 1834. The music department is housed in the Scales Fine Arts Centre which also houses departments of art, dance and theatre arts. Facilities include some fine performance spaces, a well-equipped computer laboratory and a 48-bell carillon. T...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH DAKOTA
City:
FARGO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university that can trace its history back to 1883. The Faculty of Fine Arts offers programs in music, visual arts and theatre. There is a flourishing opera program. The music department houses the Lawrence Welk collection of scores, manuscripts and arrangements of popular music fr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
BEREA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1845 and formerly known as Baldwin-Wallace College, this institution gained its current name and status in 2012. It is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is situated in close proximity to the city of Cleveland. The Conservatory, an All-Steinway ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
BOWLING GREEN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1910 as a teachers’ college. The music library houses The Sound Recording Archives, with over 700,000 recordings covering all types and styles of music, as well as the Archives of the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, with large numbers of scores, m...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
CLEVELAND
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university founded in 1826. It gained its current name and status in 1967. A Joint Music Program is organised with the Cleveland Institute of Music, thus increasing the range of courses available to students at both institutions. The Cleveland Institute offers the programs in performance, ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
CLEVELAND
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orff Schulwerk
Notes:
A state-assisted university founded in 1964, but can trace its history back to the 1880s. Staff of the music department include members of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. The Cleveland Contemporary Players are in residence at the Department. The music department has access to several fine performa...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
OBERLIN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Suzuki, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
An independent co-educational college founded in 1833 of Christian heritage. It was the first college to grant undergraduate degrees to women, and was historically a leader in educating black Americans. The Conservatory operates a contemporary music program. Some emphasis is also placed on performan...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
CINCINNATI
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
This school is unique in that it is historically a traditional European Conservatory attached to a Comprehensive/Research State University. It can trace its history back to 1867. It is a ‘campus village’ comprising the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center, Memor...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
DAYTON
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy
Notes:
A co-educational Catholic university organised under the auspices of the Society of Mary (Marianists). It can trace its history back to 1850. There are strong programs in world music and jazz studies. Ensembles include the Ebony Heritage Singers, gospel choir, a world music choir, a Javanese gamelan...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OHIO
City:
SPRINGFIELD
Special Indexes:
Library Collections
Notes:
A private liberal arts and sciences college founded in 1845 and related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Facilities include a state-of-the-art music computer laboratory. The Department is one of three repositories for the complete collected choral, organ, piano and instrumental works o...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
OKLAHOMA
City:
OKLAHOMA CITY
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
The University is affiliated with the Churches of Christ and can trace its history back to 1950. The music department is housed in the Fletcher Center for Music, and is an All-Steinway School with access to several fine performance spaces. The library houses the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra arch...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PHILADELPHIA
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private institution founded in 1924 aiming 'to train exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists on the highest professional level'. Entry is by live audition. All students are awarded full scholarships; no tuition fees are payable. Voice applicants must be between the a...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PITTSBURGH
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private Catholic university founded by the Spiritans Order, tracing its history back to 1878. The School of Music, founded in 1926, is an All-Steinway School. It runs a full opera program in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Opera at the University. A particular strength is the guitar program, with ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
MELROSE PARK
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections
Notes:
The college was founded in 1895 as a Hebrew Teachers’ College. As such it is the oldest academic institute of Jewish studies in North America. It consists of four divisions - the College Division and Graduate School, Netzky Division of Continuing Education, the Jewish Community High School and the...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PHILADELPHIA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
An independent state-affiliated university founded in 1884. The Boyer college of Music and Dance forms part of the Center for the Arts. The New School Institute is the instrumental ensemble branch of the Esther Boyer College of Music and operates as the Department of Instrumental Ensemble and Orches...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PHILADELPHIA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private Ivy League university that can trace its history back to 1740. Areas of concentration in the music department are the history of music, music theory, anthropology of music and music as a liberal art. Studies in performance are not provided on campus; students wishing to take this option mu...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PITTSBURGH
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1787. The music department forms part of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Interdisciplinary study is encouraged in the graduate programs. The library holds the Theodore Finney Music Library, the Carnegie Music Library, collections of early American h...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
RHODE ISLAND
City:
PROVIDENCE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university, the seventh oldest in America, being founded in 1764. Originally of Baptist heritage, it is now non-sectarian and is a member of the Ivy League. The music department has access to several fine performance spaces. There is an active opera workshop. The Orwig Music Library houses...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH CAROLINA
City:
GREENVILLE
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A private fundamental Christian liberal arts university founded in 1927 by the evangelist Bob Jones Sr. There is a strong emphasis on the arts. All students take studies in bible. The School of Fine Arts comprises divisions of art, music, speech communication, and film, video and broadcasting. The M...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH CAROLINA
City:
CHARLESTON
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Military Music Academies, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A four-year state-supported co-educational military college founded in 1842. No individual performance tuition is given, but entry for practising musicians is by audition. The music program involves weekly ceremonial parades and other on and off campus events. Much opportunity is given for ensemble ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH CAROLINA
City:
COLUMBIA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1801. It was the only southern state university to admit African-American students during the reconstruction era immediately following the civil war. Facilities include some fine performance spaces, a well-equipped music technology centre and recording studio....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH DAKOTA
City:
SIOUX FALLS
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts university affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Formerly known as Augustana College, it gained its current name and status in 2015. The College's Center for Western Studies holds the archival material and official records of the South Dakota branch of ME...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH DAKOTA
City:
VERMILLION
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university. Founded in 1862, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in South Dakota and is the flagship university for the state. The College of Fine Arts offers programs in art, music and theatre. The University's National Music Museum and Center for the Study of the His...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TENNESSEE
City:
JEFFERSON CITY
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1851 and affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention. The music department is housed in the Mable Lewallen Tarr Music Building. The Ball Institute for Church Music houses a Center for Church Music that conducts and publishes scholarly research in church...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TENNESSEE
City:
NASHVILLE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private historically black university, founded in 1866 and affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The courses in music business are offered through the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business of Belmont University. The library holds the Thomas A Dorsey collection of sheet musi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TENNESSEE
City:
MURFREESBORO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university. Founded in 1911 as a teachers’ college, it gained its current name and status in 1965. It is located about a 30-minute drive south of Nashville, the Country Music centre of the world. The School of Music, an All-Steinway School, has access to several fine performance ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TENNESSEE
City:
NASHVILLE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
An historically black state-supported university founded in 1912. The music department houses the largest collection of basset horn music in the USA as well as a considerable collection of African-American music. It hosts the Historically Black Colleges and Universities annual piano competition, ope...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TENNESSEE
City:
MEMPHIS
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Orff Schulwerk, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
A state university founded in 1912 and gained its current name and status in 1957. The music program has particular strengths in opera, jazz and recording technology. Ensembles include two orchestras, three bands, numerous chamber music groups, choral groups, jazz combos and a new music ensemble. Fa...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TENNESSEE
City:
NASHVILLE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Suzuki, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
An independent, privately supported university founded in 1873. The Blair School of Music was established in 1964 as a pre-college music school and has been affiliated with Vanderbilt University since 1981. It offers a thriving opera program. Alexander technique is available to students. The Blair S...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TEXAS
City:
SAN ANTONIO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A Catholic co-educational university founded in 1895 by the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence. It gained its current name and status in 1975. Our Lady of the Lake University is committed to serving Hispanics, who are the majority ethnic group on campus. Hence there are specific course...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TEXAS
City:
HOUSTON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
An independent university that can trace its roots back to 1891. In 1912 it became the Rice Institute, and gained its current name and status in 1960. The Shepherd School of Music, founded in 1975, is housed in the Alice Pratt Brown Hall, with fine performance spaces and well-equipped studios. The M...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TEXAS
City:
DALLAS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private non-sectarian university of Methodist heritage, founded in 1911. The Meadows School of the Arts comprises divisions of visual art, dance, theatre, journalism, cinema-television, music, advertising, art history and arts administration. The music division houses a number of fine performance ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TEXAS
City:
FORT WORTH
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections
Notes:
The seminary was founded in 1908 and is supported by the Southern Baptist Convention. In addition to accreditation from national accrediting bodies the courses have been accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the US and Canada. Attached to the Seminary is The College at South Wester...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TEXAS
City:
DENTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A state-supported university established in 1890 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 1988. The College of Music is the second largest comprehensive music school in the USA. It sees the jazz program as one of its many strengths, with some thirteen 20-member ensembles. T...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
UTAH
City:
PROVO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
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A private university founded in 1875 and sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It gained its current name and status in 1903. All undergraduate degree programs include courses in religion. The School of Music is housed in the Harris Fine Arts Center, with access to several fi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
UTAH
City:
CEDAR CITY
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering
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A state university founded in 1897 as a teacher training college. It gained its current name and status in 1991. The music department has access to some fine performing spaces and hosts a thriving opera/music theatre program. It is an All-Steinway School. The department houses the Dalley Collection ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VERMONT
City:
MIDDLEBURY
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
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A private liberal arts college founded in 1800. The music department is housed in the Mahaney Center for the Arts and emphasises composition and performance, music history and ethnomusicology. It has access to some fine performing spaces. Participation in the College’s African Music and Dance Perf...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VIRGINIA
City:
NORFOLK
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections
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Formerly known as the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music, the Naval School of Music is located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. The school, officially founded in 1935, is the only one of its kind within the armed forces of the United States. The mission of the school is to provide...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
SEATTLE
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
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A state-supported university founded in 1861. The School of Music has access to several fine performing spaces. There is a Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (covering visual art, literary arts, music). The Ethnomusicology Archives holds a vast collection of field re...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
PULLMAN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
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A state-supported university founded in 1890 as the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. It gained its current name and status in 1959. The music school is housed in the Kimbrough Music Building which includes state-of-the-art recording studios and computer-assisted composition and...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
City:
WASHINGTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
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A private university with links to the Methodist church. It can trace its history back to 1893. The Department of Performing Arts comprises divisions of music, theatre, music theatre, dance and arts management, with the music division being housed in the Katzen Art Center. Students may earn both und...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
City:
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Archives
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A private historically black university with federal government support. It was founded in 1866. The College of Fine Arts comprises departments of art, drama and music, and houses the Office of University Choirs and Bands. There are plans for a new building to house the College. The Moreland Spinga...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
City:
WASHINGTON D.C.
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
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A private Catholic university founded in 1887. The Benjamin T Rome School of Music is housed in Ward Hall, with access to some fine performance spaces. The School sees its main strengths as in performance, music history and liturgical music. Many graduate programs may be taken with Latin-American co...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
City:
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives
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A state-supported historically black university that can trace its history back to 1851. It gained its current name and status in 1977. The library holds the Felix E Grant Jazz Archives, consisting of over 22,000 recordings, books, periodicals and tapes of interviews with the great artists of jazz ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
MADISON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
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A state-supported university founded in 1848. It is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. There is an active early music group. Facilities include a state-of-the-art Center for Music Technology. The music school maintains an instrument shop with a huge collection of more than 1...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WYOMING
City:
LARAMIE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
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A state-supported university founded in 1886. The music department is housed in the Fine Arts Building. The University's American Heritage Centre, housed in the Coe Library, holds a major collection of original big band, television and film scores and manuscripts. There is a large holding of record...
Country:
URUGUAY
State:
City:
MONTEVIDEO
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Library Collections, Programs for the Handicapped, Traditional Instrument Performance
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Sometimes known as TUMP, the Uruguayan Popular Music Workshop was founded in 1984. Staffed by over 40 musicians and teachers it is a non-profit school, charging only a nominal fee. Apart from the regular music courses the Workshop participates in many community music promotion projects supported by ...
Country:
URUGUAY
State:
City:
MONTEVIDEO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting
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The University of the Republic was founded in 1849 and is Uruguay's oldest public university. The School of Music opened in 1953 and gained its current name and status in 1986. Facilities include a well-equipped electronic music studio, an electroacoustic laboratory and the EUM library which has 180...
Country:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
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The Foundation of Ethnomusicology and Folklore (sometimes known as FUNDEF) was founded in 1987 and is organised through the National Cultural Council of Venezuela. It is not primarily a teaching body, and has the aim 'to investigate, preserve and disseminate the traditional and popular oral cultures...
Country:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions
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The Vicente Emilio Sojo National Music Center Foundation was organised in 1978 under the name of La Fundación Vicente Emilio Sojo (Funves). and was granted its current name and status in 2016. It is the national musicological institution of Venezuela and not primarily a teaching body. It exists to ...
Country:
YEMEN
State:
City:
SANA’A
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
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This recently established institution holds an archive of traditional Yemeni music, set up in 1998 with assistance from UNESCO and the Japanese government. Organised under the jurisdiction of the Yemeni Ministry of Culture, its director is Mr Jâber Alî Ahmed, a distinguished lute player and teache...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
GWERU
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
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This government owned University was founded in 2000 and offers courses mainly in the commercial and arts sector. It was formerly known as Gweru Teachers' College. The main campus is in Gweru, with others in Zvishavane and Harare. The Music & Musicology Department has an archive of children’s ...