The Department of Music is located in the Morris R. Williams Center for the Arts (built in 1983), a facility that ranks among the best on any college campus. The Williams Center includes:
  • large and small rehearsal rooms (for band, chorus, orchestra and other ensembles)
  • individual practice rooms (equipped with "state of the art" pianos)
  • a fully equipped electronic music studio, with analog and digital synthesizers and MIDI classrooms (with excellent audio-visual tools)
  • a 32-track digital recording studio
  • a digital music laboratory
  • a modest non-circulating music library consisting of  CDs, LP recordings, videos and study scores
  • a 400-seat concert hall/theater
  • music listening and video stations
  • faculty offices and teaching studios
  • a Japanese musical instrument collection
  •  West African drums and other ethnic instruments
  • a large inventory of band and orchestra instruments
  • The music collection is supported by a broad comprehensive collection of books and editions of music housed in Skillman Library. Students have the use of two harpsichords, two Steinway concert grand pianos,a large number of MIDI keyboards and a 3-manual pipe organ.
    Morris R. Williams Center for the Arts

    Electronic Music Studio

    Instruments from the Japanese Collection