Facilities
Beall Concert Hall | Collier House | Music Library | Future Music Oregon | Computer Lab | Instruments | Lockers

The School of Music and Dance contains a broad range of facilities and equipment: band, choir, and orchestra rehearsal rooms with support facilities; the 520-seat Beall Concert Hall, acclaimed by numerous guest artists for its superb acoustics; and the Collier House, home to the music history department and the Early Music Program.

Collier House
Collier House has been added to the list of School of Music and Dance facilities. Built in 1885-1886 by the Collier family, it is a rare example of a late Victorian house in bracketed Italianate-style with an Italianate styled interior popular in the Northwest in the late 1800s. It is the second oldest building on the UO campus. Both the house and grounds are listed on the Inventory of Historic Sites and Buildings. It has been a residential home, President's house, Chancellor's home, faculty club, restaurant, and meeting room/pub. Music history faculty offices and the Early Music Program were moved to Collier House in August 2004. A variety of courses, seminars, meetings and programs are held in the space.

Music Library
The Music Services Department of the University of Oregon's Knight Library contains more than 40,000 recordings and 25,000 scores, a comprehensive collection of books on music, and a state-of-the-art listening room. The library's Reserve/Video Department contains a wide range of videos on music, dance, and other subjects.

Future Music Oregon
As of Fall 2008 there will be five outstanding studios for facilitating electroacoustic and new media creation. The main studio also serves as a classroom and a performance space for sonic and videographic realization. The smaller studios are designed as learning environments that utilize smaller configurations that are compatible with the main facility. Among the components in the various studios are a Sony DMX-R100 digital mixer, multiple Yamaha digital mixers, Symbolic Sound Kyma systems, and Pro Tools systems. In addition, the studios provide the Peak digital audio editing software, and the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. A battery of game controllers and infrared controlling devices are also available. An eight-channel Tannoy monitoring system complements the large studio. The components of these systems represent our commitment to providing a powerful and high quality environment in which to learn and create.

Computer Lab
The music school houses the Kammerer Microcomputer Lab, with Macintosh computer work stations where you can work with mainstream software for music notation and instructional software in music theory and aural skills. Other resources in the laboratory include sequencing software, MIDI, and sound-generating software as well as facilities for exploring the Internet, using E-mail, graphics, and word processing.

Instruments
The university owns a large inventory of orchestral and band instruments. A collection of ethnic musical instruments includes Balinese and Javanese gamelans. Our keyboard inventory includes five Steinway concert grand pianos, four harpsichords, one clavichord, pianos in each classroom and practice room, and a modern group piano laboratory featuring Clavinova digital keyboards. The school houses three pipe organs, including the internationally renowned organ in Beall Concert Hall by Jürgen Ahrend of Germany, and other organs by Flentrop and Schlicker.

Lockers
The School of Music and Dance has a limited number of lockers available for student use. For more information contact the receptionist at (541) 346-3761 or e-mail mushelp@uoregon.edu.

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