The Department of Music on the Douglass campus is housed in the Marryott Music Building, Music House, Walters Hall, and the fine arts complex consisting of Rehearsal Hall, Music Annex, and the Nicholas Music Center, which has a beautiful concert hall that seats approximately eight hundred people. These buildings contain classrooms; performance and teaching studios; conference and seminar rooms; small, medium, and large multipurpose rehearsal rooms; a small recital hall seating two hundred people; forty-three practice studios; rooms with computer workstations and electronic keyboards; as well as various other faculty offices and studios. The department has approximately one hundred fifty pianos, a fortepiano, three harpsichords, two concert organs, and a large collection of instruments. The Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library, housed adjacent to the department in the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, contains a major collection of books, scores, recordings, and other resources for the scholar and the performing musician.
