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Facilities & Instruments

Music Buildings

  • McCrary Music Building
    • Jones Concert Hall and Meadows Recital Hall
    • Instrumental and Ensemble Faculty
    • Practice Rooms
  • Waco Hall Complex
    • Waco Hall East, Roxy Grove Hall and Recital Hall II (inside Waco Hall Lobby)
    • Academic, Keyboard, Piano Pedagogy and Vocal Faculty
    • Administrative Leadership & Staff

Performance Halls

  • Waco Hall (2,200 seats) in Waco Hall Complex
  • Jones Concert Hall (906 standard seats and 14 wheelchair seats) in McCrary
  • Armstrong Browning Library
  • Roxy Grove Hall (500 seats) in Waco Hall Complex
  • Meadows Recital Hall (200 seats) in McCrary
  • Recital Hall II (120 seats) in Waco Hall Complex

Opera

  • Opera Black Box
    • Baylor Opera Theater is unique in that we have our own opera building to rehearse in. The rehearsal stage is 38ft wide and 26ft deep. In addition, the facility has prop, set and costume storage. This space has recently been refurbished to increase the efficiency of rehearsals. 
  • Jones Theatre (356-seat proscenium) in Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center
  • Waco Hall 301

Libraries

  • Crouch Fine Arts Library in Baylor Central Libraries
    • music, visual arts, audio, and video collections
    • Music Lab - a computer lab with 12 high speed computers with music software
  • Music Education Resource Center (MERC)
    • resources for music educators
  • O'Neal [Piano] Pedagogy Library
    • more than 59,000 titles, some of which date from the 19th century, provides a rich resource for the program in piano pedagogy as well as for research by faculty and graduate students

Composition

  • Alinea (Marrs McLean Science Building, 330)
    • Alinea's current space houses specialized equipment for research involved in creating fixed and interactive electroacoustic music, scoring for film, and experimenting with other arts technologies.
  • Comp Lab (Roxy Grove Hall, 220)
    • a publishing lab for composition students to edit, print, bind, and package their compositions. It is equipped with an 11x17 duplex printer, spiral binder, and other binding necessities.

Music Education

  • Music Education Resource Center (MERC)
    • resources for music educators
  • Music Education Smart Lab
  • Orff and Classroom Instruments
  • Media Center (Marrs McLean Science Building, GL12)
    • As candidates in the Teacher Education program, Music Education majors also have access to resources in the School of Education, including the Media Center and the Learning Resource Center.
  • Learning Resources Center (LRC) (Marrs McLean Science Building, Garden Level)
    • As candidates in the Teacher Education program, Music Education majors also have access to resources in the School of Education, including the Media Center and the Learning Resource Center.

Piano Pedagogy

  • Two Group Piano Laboratories
  • Audra O'Neal Piano Pedagogy Library
    • more than 59,000 titles, some of which date from the 19th century, provides a rich resource for the program in piano pedagogy as well as for research by faculty and graduate students
  • Children's Piano Laboratory Program Group Piano Laboratory

Instruments

Performance Pianos

  • 2 Hamburg Steinway D’s
  • 2 New York Steinway D’s
  • 1 New York Steinway D Spirio | r
  • 1 Bösendorfer 214
  • 1 New York Steinway B
  • 1 Steinway M Spirio (Piano Pedagogy)

Harpsichords

  • Recital Hall II – Zuckerman
  • McCrary 149 – Dowd
  • Armstrong Browning Library – Goble
  • Meadows Recital Hall – Kingston
  • Waco Hall East 301 – [no name]

Wind & Percussion

To best prepare students for careers in music, we have an extensive/impressive collection of professional instruments students borrow regularly for rehearsals and performances. To find out more about instruments available to School of Music students, ask your applied professor or the Admission and Recruiting Coordinator.

Organs

Markham Organ Studio
McCrary Music Building

Orgues Létourneau, Op. 34
Built 1993
Mechanical Action- slider chests
III/39

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McLane Organ
Jones Concert Hall

Petty-Madden, Op. 34
Built 1993
Electro-pneumatic action
IV/92

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Powell Chapel Organ
Truett Seminary

Orgues Létourneau, Op. 89
Built 2003
Electric slider action
III/56

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Roxy Grove Hall Organ
Roxy Grove Hall

Rufatti Organbuilders
Built 1972
Electro-pneumatic action
III/57

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Travis Johnson Memorial Organ
Recital Hall II (Waco Hall Complex)

Fratelli Ruffatti
Built 1973
Mechanical Action- Slider chests
II/17

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Practice Organs
McCrary Music Building
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School of Music

McCrary Music Building (Jones Hall & Meadows Recital Hall)

Roxy Grove (Roxy Grove Hall)

Waco Hall East (Recital Hall II)

One Bear Place #97408
Waco, TX 76798-7408

254-710-1417 (Teresa Reid)
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