Music Building
At this time the Music program facilities are located in the Music Building, located on the west side of the tree-lined oval in the historical heart of campus and with easy access to the Lory Student Center and Morgan Library. The music building holds two classrooms, a technology lab, a music composition lab, one large lecture hall, one large rehearsal room, and the Casavant Recital Hall. Most faculty and grad student offices are still located in the Music Building and Ammons Hall, where applied lessons are held. In total, there are 23 practice rooms available including dedicated rooms for piano, harp, organ and percussion.
Ammons Hall
The music therapy program facilities are located to the north of the Music Building in Ammons Hall. They include music therapy faculty offices, one lecture classroom, a music therapy resource room, and a vast collection of AMTA materials and literature.
Music Technology Lab
The Technology Lab is divided into three areas – a keyboard lab, a computer lab, and a listening area. The Keyboard lab is equipped with 17 Yahama CLP-679 electric pianos, each with a PC, loaded with Finale 2007 and Sibelius 4 notation programs. The keyboards may be individually monitored by an instructor. The computer lab is equipped with 12 computers, and a variety of software, including notation programs Finale and Sibelius, notation/performance software Band in a Box, recording editing and assembly software, Cakewalk, SoundForge, ProAudio, ProTools, Sonar Home Studio 4, Cubase, Goldwave, Multiquence, Ear training software Auralia and Ear Training Expedition, and notation recognition software SmartScore and SharpEye. The listening area also has three computers, with Finale and Sibelius, which can also serve as listening stations. The area also includes carrels for listening to LP’s, cassettes, and CD’s. The area is also equipped with a TV and VCR/DVD players. The audio collection includes some 5000 CD recordings, and 7000 LP’s. This area also holds archived collections of Faculty and University Ensembles, ranging in format from reel-to-reel, DAT, and CD’s.
Music Composition Lab
The music composition lab is a state of the art facility designed to facilitate development of our future plans of a thriving composition program at CSU. The core of the system is based on the industry-standard Gigastudio platform, similar to what the majority of professional composers now use in their studios. The Gigastudio platform provides dynamic multisampling of all instruments—that is, actual recordings of instruments playing every single note, articulation, dynamic level, etc. These samples are "triggered" by any standard notation software (Sibelius, Finale, etc.) or sequencer program. What this does is provide the most realistic playback possible for students and professionals alike, rivaling that of an actual performance. The advantages to student composers are many—most specifically, the samples provide students with timbre and articulation characteristics of each instrument in different ranges, which is always a difficult concept for student composers to grasp, since most do not have access to an ensemble to study these characteristics. While there is no substitute for a live ensemble, this lab will give students the next best alternative, while also training them for professional composition careers on industry standard technology.
Location and Parking
The Music Building and Ammons Hall are located on Oval Drive, the heart of the CSU campus. Free Event Parking is available after 5:00 p.m. around the Oval and behind the Music Building.
