Facilities

J. Mabel Wood

The School of Music is comfortably housed in J. Mabel Wood Hall, a 44,000 square foot masonry building, first occupied during the fall semester of 1981. Included are 10 teaching studios/offices; 24 practice rooms; two classrooms; choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms; an electronic piano lab; and a Mac computer lab.

Music Library

The listening/score library contains 3651 units, consisting of records, compact disks, video tapes, dvds, scores, and several reference works. The listening/study room houses 13 listening stations (2 turntables, 8 CD players, 3 cassette players), 2 vhs/dvd video monitors, a large study table, current music periodicals, a computer containing the recording and score catalog for student search use, and reference book shelves.

Practice Rooms

Seventeen practice rooms are furnished with upright studio pianos, three have 6' grand pianos, one a two-manual Keith Hill harpsichord, and another a two-manual three-stop Brombaugh tracker organ. Several practice rooms contain only a music stand and chair for instrumental practice.

Labs

The electronic keyboard lab has 11 Yamaha keyboards (10 for students, 1 for the teacher's station), and is used for aural theory and basic musicianship classes, and class piano. The Mac Computer Lab is located on the second floor of the building. It houses 12 computers with MIDI keyboards for use in music theory, composition, arranging, and orchestration classes.

 

Ackerman Auditorium

Ackerman Auditorium, centrally located in Wood Hall, is a 258-seat recital hall. Instruments permanently assigned to this room are a Steinway concert grand piano and a 14-stop mean-tone tuned Renaissance organ built by John Brombaugh. The stage is large enough to accommodate a 50 piece ensemble and is used for rehearsals and concerts by both soloists and ensembles. Artists performing in this auditorium commend its fine acoustics.

Anton Heiller Memorial Organ

In addition to the several practice organs housed in the music building, the university owns a 70-stop Brombaugh tracker organ, housed in the Collegedale Seventh-day Adventist Church located on campus. This instrument is used for lessons, practice, and concerts. For more information about the School of Music organs, just click.