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Dalton Center
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The School of Music and Department of Dance are housed in the Dorothy U. Dalton Center, which offers some of the finest music rehearsal, study, practice, and performance spaces in the world. Adjacent to the nationally recognized James W. Miller Auditorium, the Dalton Center boasts 157,000 square feet of space (equivalent to 4.5 football fields).
Its distinctive spaces include two recital halls, a multi-track digital recording studio, an electronic music laboratory, a 10,000 square foot music library, a state-of-the-art multi-media room, a music therapy clinic, a computer laboratory featuring a special MIDI station and Macintosh PowerPC computers (each equipped with a Yamaha synthesizer and a Roland sound module), and one of the world's largest installations of pre-fabricated, sound-isolated practice rooms and teaching studios.
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Usage: Music and Dance Studies
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Department of Dance
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Studio A Room 3118
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Studio B Room 3116
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Two large studios and one medium studio are available for technique courses and rehearsals. Each is equipped with a piano, percussion instruments, and sound playback units. A small studio is available for warm-up and solo and duet rehearsals. "Floating" floors in all studios, some covered with specialized vinyl dance flooring, help provide a safe environment for performance of challenging dance repertory. |
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Conditioning Room Room 3121
The conditioning room is equipped with two Current Concepts™ Studio Reformers, an exercise mat, mirrors and anatomical charts. Locker rooms are equipped with lockers for each major student, showers, make-up lights, hairdryers and rest rooms.
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Music and Dance Library Room 3006
Also known as the Harper C. Maybee Music and Dance Library, our library supports study and research in music and dance with a variety of resources and services.
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School of Music
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Choral Rehearsal Room Room 1116
A large rehearsal space with 25-foot ceilings acoustically isolated, designed, and equipped for choral ensembles.
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Instrumental Rehearsal Room Room 1120
Also with 25-foot ceilings, the largest rehearsal space in Dalton Center is designed for bands and orchestras, and is capable of accommodating a 75-piece orchestra with a 200-voice chorus.
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Noack Organ Studio Room 1136
The Noack Organ Studio contains a free-standing, two-manual, mechanical-action instrument built by Fritz Noack of Georgetown, Massachusetts. Featuring a 25-foot ceiling and gracefully scalloped brick walls, the studio can accommodate 60 persons in an intimate recital setting.
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Recital Hall Room 1004
The 450-seat Recital Hall (which can be expanded to 550 seats) has been acoustically designed for large and small chamber music performances, choral concerts, piano and organ recitals, and School of Music Convocations. The 44-rank Schlicker pipe organ previously located at Miller Auditorium is housed in a back-stage practice room and moved to the stage for performances.
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Electronic Music Lab Room 2004
The 450-square-foot electronic music lab features an eight-speaker surround sound monitoring system and houses an extensive array of professional hardware and computer software used for digital multi-track recording and editing, sampling, sound synthesis, MIDI, and video/music synchronization. The facility also maintains a vintage Moog Synthesizer and Synclavier. This fully professional environment is designed for high level music and multi-media production and for the realization of creative musical projects and compositions.
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Carmel Elliot Provencal Suite Room 3021
Named after gracious benefactor, Carmel Provencal, the Provencal Suite of the Music Therapy Clinic is the larger of a two-room treatment facility. Typically, the Provencal Suite is used for the provision of group therapy or for clients who may benefit from a more comfortable and intimate setting. Currently, the room provides space for upgraded computerized music creation and production technology for use in both group and individual therapy.
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Western Sound Studios Room 2005
This multi-track digital facility is designed to accommodate the recording of chamber music and jazz. The Central Recording Control room primarily serves the Recording Studio and Recital Hall but is also interconnected to microphones in all three large rehearsal rooms, the Electronic Music Studio, and the Multi-Media Room.
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