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The Morehead State University Department of Music has a distinguished history of educating musicians and teachers since the 1920s. The department currently enrolls over 250 majors that hail from several states and foreign countries and employs a distinguished faculty of more than 30 full- and part-time instructors with extensive credentials from many of the nation’s most highly regarded schools of music. The student and faculty performing groups, which are widely recognized for their artistic excellence, serve as laboratories for the development of professional skills and a full schedule of recitals, concerts, clinics, and other special events is offered each year to serve students, the community, and the surrounding tri-state region.
MSU offers the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education, Jazz Studies, and Performance, and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. The Master of Music degree is offered in Music Education and Performance. A Minor in Traditional Music is offered in conjunction with the MSU’s Kentucky Center for Traditional Music. By providing the academic programs of a great university within the atmosphere of a small community, students are afforded an experience of excellence in a personal environment. Musical training and performance opportunities are provided to students who are not planning musical careers.
Baird Music Hall is the center of activity for undergraduate and graduate music students. It houses multi-media classrooms, large and small ensemble rehearsal halls, teaching studios, practice rooms, a 16-station keyboard-skills laboratory, keyboard practice facilities equipped with both studio and grand pianos and organs, the 400-seat Duncan Recital Hall, and the Listening-Learning Center, which is the home to the digital music technology laboratory. The music curriculum is supported by a library collection of 7800 scores, 8200 books about music, 4100 recordings, 470 DVDs and videos, and several hundred other non-print items. Other resources include 44 print subscriptions and 17 standing orders for collected editions. The Library subscribes to several music databases for use both on and off campus. The International Index to Music Periodicals provides access to a large number of periodical articles, some in full text. Grove Music Online is a scholarly encyclopedia of music that has long been recognized as an authoritative reference source. The Library also has subscriptions to Classical Music Library and Naxos, two of the primary databases for online listening.careers.
Morehead State University is an institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), the national association that sets professional standards for institutional music programs throughout the United States. MSU is also accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
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