 The Music programs of the College of Fine Arts and Humanities are housed in the multi-million dollar Fine Arts Center on the 235-acre campus of the University of Nebraska Kearney. The Fine Arts Center features a 500-seat recital hall with three concert grand pianos (a Hamburg Steinway 'D' acquired in 1999, a New York Steinway 'D' rebuilt in 2004, and a Mason & Hamlin 'CC'), and a new Rodgers digital performance organ; a 350-seat theater; a 100-seat Blackbox theater; costume shop and scenic/lighting design labs; dance studio; and large instrumental and choral rehearsal rooms. The department offers more than fifty performance and practice pianos, all exceptionally maintained by our registered piano technician, along with Yamaha Disklaviers for digital recordings, and a state-of-the arts electronic class piano room, featuring Yamaha Clavinovas. All music class/rehearsal spaces are fully equipped as ‘smart’ classrooms, with sophisticated sound equipment, large-screen video displays, and the latest computer technology. The student technology lab (10 mainframe computers) and recording studios offer students hands-on work with the latest music software and digital technology (including Finale, MacGamut, Audacity, and Microsoft Office). Faculty teaching studios are large, fully networked, with new digital audio recording equipment.
All students enrolled at UNK have free access to numerous online digital music research resources including full access to Oxford Music Online (The Oxford Dictionary, The New Grove Dictionary of Music), Music Resource Online (over 300,000 printable scores), Naxos (streamed recordings of more than 444,000 music tracks), the Harvard Dictionary of Music, NPR Classical Music Companion, the Performing Arts Directory, along with numerous ebooks, ejournals and databases (including RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, the Music Index, JSTOR, and WorldCat).
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