Facilities

The Music Wing of the Creative Arts Center features a 383-seat Concert Hall and a Recital Hall, which seats 125. A 32-rank Casavant organ is located in the Concert Hall. Additional facilities include rehearsal space for choral and instrumental ensembles, choral and instrumental libraries, electronic piano laboratory, computer assisted keyboard lab, classrooms, faculty offices and studios, student lockers, and practice rooms.

Library Information for Music Students

All library materials are housed in the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library. Books and scores are on the 3rd floor, Center Section. Sound recordings are on the 2nd floor, in the Current Periodicals & Media (CP/M) Room. Journals are also on the 2nd floor, recent issues in CP/M and bound volumes in the South Section stacks. Music reference books are in the Reference Collection on the 2nd floor, Center Section.

Listening facilities are available in CP/M. CDs may be played on the DVD players at public viewing stations, or in the Group Listening Room. Headphones are available at the CP/M service desk. CDs are also playable in any public workstation in the Library with a CD drive. LPs and cassettes may be played in the Group Listening Room.

The Dunbar Library’s normal hours of operation are:

Monday – Thursday.............. 7:30 a.m. – 12:00 Midnight

Friday.............................. 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Saturday........................... 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Sunday............................. 1:00 p.m. – 12:00 Midnight

The hours of operation are not the same during breaks, summer quarter and on university holidays; check the libraries website, www.libraries.wright.edu/, to find out the hours during these periods.

Loan periods: Undergraduate students may borrow print materials (books and scores) for 28 days, and sound recordings for 7 days. Volumes of Collected Editions may be borrowed for 14 days.

There is a grace period of 20 days for print and 7 days for recordings. After this grace period, overdue fines are 50 cents/day, to a maximum of $7.50. Bills for replacement are sent when items are more than 35 days overdue.

Your University ID card is your library card. Please have it with you when you go to check out items.

Course reserves: Faculty may place items on reserve for your classes. Print reserves will be at the Circulation Desk in Dunbar. Recordings will be on reserve at the CP/M desk (as will any scores that go with them). Reserve recordings will also generally be available online, so you can listen anywhere on campus or at home.

To access online reserves, go to the Libraries web site, click on “Course Reserves,” look up your course or instructor, enter the course password (which your instructor will give you at the start of the quarter) and then choose the item from the list for your course.

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Lockers

Student lockers are housed on the first floor of the Music Wing. Three sizes are available and are assigned by the Music Office. The locker fee is payable at the Bursar's Office (E236 Student Union).

Rental Charges: $15.00 per academic year, or $5.00 per Summer Session

Step #1 - Pay your fee at the Cashier's Window of the Bursar's Office.

Step #2 - Bring your receipt to the Department of Music Office and receive the combination to your locker.

LOCKERS ARE ASSIGNED ACCORDING TO INSTRUMENT SIZE AND LOCKER AVAILABILITY. Sharing a locker is not cause to have a larger lockers assigned.

To Open Your Locker:

  1. Turn right two or more turns and stop at the first number.
  2. Then turn left one whole turn past the first number and stop at the second number.
  3. Now turn right to the third number and your lock should open.

The Department of Music supplies the locks on the Music lockers. PERSONAL LOCKS ARE NOT TO BE USED ON THESE LOCKERS. Personal locks, if used, will be cut off and the locker contents taken to the Music Office.

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Faculty Mailboxes

Department of Music faculty, faculty associates, and graduate assistants have mailboxes located in the Music Office, M153. If you would like to leave a message, one of the office staff will place it in the appropriate box. Do not go behind the desk.

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Practice Rooms

Practice rooms are provided for your use at no charge; however, you must pay a $5.00 key deposit fee, which will be returned to you when the key is returned. Keys may be picked up from the student worker in the Department of Music office, room M153. In order to assure the most efficient use of these rooms, certain procedures must be followed:

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Woodwind Reedmaking Room

M236 is the reedmaking room; it is specifically designed for woodwind majors to make reeds. Making reeds is the primary purpose of this room; however it is available as a practice room although it does not contain a piano. This room is to be kept locked when not in use in order to keep the reedmaking equipment secure.

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Room Reservations

Reservations for time in classrooms, the Recital Hall, the Concert Hall, the CAC Commons or Balcony must be made through Victoria Chadbourne, M153A CAC.

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Smoking Policy

Wright State University is in the mainstream of the national movement to promote a cleaner, more healthful environment by declaring Wright State University a smoke-free campus. Smoking is not permitted in public areas or private offices. See Wright Way Policy 6020 for more information. Contact the Department of Human Resources at extension 2120 if you have questions concerning the policy.

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Email

All email communications between students and the Department of Music will be done using the student’s official Wright State email account. If you do not check your WSU email account, here is how to forward your WSU email to your personal email account.

If you have any questions about or problems with this procedure, call the CaTS Help Desk at (937)775-4827.

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Name and Address Changes

While it is important to inform the Department of Music about changes in your name or address, changes must also be submitted to the University Registrar to have the changes made to your University records. If your address needs to be changed, you can do that online in ROX. If you are changing your name, you must go to the Registrar’s Office in E244 Student Union.

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Program Biographies

Certain programs, such as ones for Concerto Night, Honors Recital, Holidays In the Heartland and Opera Theatre productions, contain student biographies. It is the student’s responsibility to submit a biography to Victoria Chadbourne two weeks before the concert so she can give the student a proof to approve. Below is an example of an acceptable biography:

Joshua Baker is a sophomore Music Education major. He is a member of the Wright State Wind Symphony under the direction of Dr. David M. Booth, and the Wright State Saxophone Quartet under the direction of Dr. Shelley M. Jagow with whom he studies applied saxophone. Josh is in the honors program and is consistently named to the Dean’s List. He is a recipient of the prestigious ArtsGala Scholarship and is the elected Music Student President and Representative to the Faculty. In 2004, he was a winner of the WSU Concerto Competition. Josh is active in the National Association for Music Education, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and holds the position of Treasurer for Alpha Lambda Delta, one of the oldest and most prestigious college honor societies.

Guidelines for Biographies:

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Tickets to Department of Music Performances

To encourage music students to attend Artist Series and other ticketed performances, music majors are allowed to purchase one ticket to Department of Music sponsored performances for $1.00. Each student must purchase her or his own ticket; no more than one ticket per student will be given out. The tickets must also be purchased from Victoria Chadbourne in the Department of Music Office or at the Creative Arts Box Office the day of the performance; tickets will not be sold for $1.00 at the Student Union Box Office. These tickets are not transferable. They will be marked and ushers will insure only Music majors are admitted if the marked ticket is presented.

The only exception to the $1.00 policy is if regular tickets prices are higher than the normal $8 in advance for Students, Seniors and Faculty and Staff, $10 the day of the show, and $10 in advance for Adults, $12 the day of the show. The price for Music majors in these cases will be announced.

Complimentary tickets are not given to any student performer for friends or relatives. Ticketed performances have many associated expenses and complimentary tickets are not feasible.

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Community Music Division (CMD)

Mission

The Mission Statement of Wright State University says:

“Wright State University will be a catalyst for educational excellence in the Miami Valley, meeting the need for an educated citizenry dedicated to lifelong learning and service”

The Mission Statement for the Wright State University Department Music says:

“The mission of the Department of Music at Wright State University is to promulgate the art of music and to provide quality music education for 1) students pursuing careers in music, 2) students majoring in other areas and 3) members of the Miami Valley community.”

Flowing from the university’s mission of “meeting the need for an educated citizenry” in the Miami Valley, and from #2 and #3 of the Department of Music Mission Statement, the Mission of the Community Music Division (CMD) is to provide musical opportunities for citizens in the Miami Valley.

Through the enactment of this mission, CMD plays a key role in providing these experiences while at the same time offering opportunities for in-service training to current music majors in the Department of Music.

The basic purpose of CMD lines up with the Goals and Objectives of the Department very well.

  1. CMD provides a venue for Faculty and Student Teachers to outreach to the community with music expertise.
  2. CMD provides a chance for prospective young musicians to study with experts and professionals
  3. CMD provides a venue for college students who want to continue in music but do not want to study for college credit.
  4. CMD provides a venue for college students who do want to major in music but are not ready to enter the program
  5. CMD provides serious high school musicians an opportunity to learn about Wright State University and the various music degree programs offered

Programs offered through the Community Music Division

The basic program of CMD is the offering of non-credit applied music lessons to students at Wright State University who are not majoring in music, and to citizens of all ages residing in the Miami Valley region and desiring to improve their musical performance skills.

A secondary program of CMD is the offering of various other musical classes designed to meet the needs and interests of citizens in the Miami Valley. Since inception of CMD, these classes have included:

Future programs being explored for the future include a summer Suzuki string camp, and Suzuki String Teacher Training.

Community Music Division (CMD) is a program in the Department of Music that allows Music students and faculty to teach non-credit, applied music lessons in the Creative Arts Center. Those teaching these classes are compensated financially for this teaching. For more information on teaching CMD classes, contact Victoria Chadbourne in M153 CAC or at 775-2787.

NOTE: Anyone teaching lessons for a fee on Wright State University property, whether in the CAC or not, must go through the CMD program. Failure to do so is in violation of state law and constitutes a criminal offense.