Music Facilities
Audio Library
Faculty Studios and Offices
Gault Recital Hall
Lockers
McGaw Chapel
No-Smoking Policy
Practice Rooms
Scheide Music Center
Student Lounge
Scheide
Music Center
The primary music facility at The College of Wooster, Scheide
Music Center, a fully-equipped, five-million-dollar facility,
contains five classrooms, eleven teaching studios, twenty-three
practice rooms, an audio library, and an electronic music studio.
The building's centerpiece is the elegant Gault Recital Hall,
which seats nearly 300 persons and is especially noteworthy for
its excellent acoustics and state-of-the-art recording studio.
Adjacent to the Recital Hall is Timken Hall, in which the major
performing ensembles rehearse. This leading facility also houses
the Music Department Secretary's Office, Tour Coordinator's Office,
storerooms for instruments, uniforms, and music, and lounges for
students and faculty.
Scheide Music Center is open Monday through Friday from approximately
7:00 a.m. to midnight when school is in session. The practice
rooms and the instrument storage room adjoining Timken Rehearsal
Room are open until approximately midnight, and the audio library
is open most evenings and Saturday or Sunday afternoons.
Gault Recital
Hall
Scheduling of Gault Recital Hall is done through the Music Secretary.
Faculty may schedule lessons, juries, and classes as far ahead
of time as they wish. Students may schedule practice time during
the week in which they wish to practice; normally they may practice
in Gault only when preparing for recitals.
Faculty Studios
and Offices
Faculty studios and offices are in the second floor west wing.
No faculty member may lend his or her studio key to anyone else
for purposes of practicing in the studio.
Practice
Rooms
Practice rooms in the first floor west wing and the organ practice
rooms in the south wing are primarily for the use of students
who are enrolled in College of Wooster music courses, including
applied music lessons and performing groups. Other students on
campus may use these rooms if they are not needed by music students,
but a music student is entitled to ask a non-music student to
leave a room if all other rooms are in use and the music student
needs the room for practicing. A form entitling students to a
key to practice rooms may be obtained from the Music Secretary
by any student who is currently enrolled in applied music lessons
or a performing group.
Practice rooms may be reserved for College students who teach
private lessons. These teachers should post their teaching schedules
on the outside of the doors of the rooms in which they teach.
Blank schedule forms may be obtained from the Music Secretary.
Practice rooms with grand pianos are for the use of advanced
piano students and are to be used for piano practice or for rehearsals
with soloists who are preparing recitals in which a piano is involved.
Sign-up sheets will be posted on the doors of grand piano rooms.
These rooms may not be used for working out Music Theory assignments
including keyboard exercises, or for music composition.
Practice rooms are intended for practicing, not for any other
purposes--including eating and socializing. No practice room "belongs"
to any single individual and no student should act as though it
does. This applies not only to the amount of time a student spends
in the room, but also to the condition of the room. Decorations
may not be placed on walls, ceiling, floor, or pianos; scores,
books, clothing, and other items may not clutter the floors. Cleaning
crews must be able to operate unimpeded in the practice rooms.
Audio Library
The Listening Center is located in Room 222 of Scheide Music Center.
It boasts an impressive collection of more than 3000 compact discs,
cassettes, and long-playing records, as well as playback equipment
in all three formats and a computer terminal which provides access
to the complete on-line catalogue of Andrews Library.
The Listening Center is normally open most evenings and Saturday or Sunday
afternoons. Music students are employed to check out headphones at the desk,
monitor the use of recordings and playback equipment, and reshelve recordings.
Music majors enrolled in a music course who need to listen to a recording
at a time other than when the audio library is open may obtain a key from
the Music Secretary.
Current Hours of Operation
Sunday 7-11 pm
Monday 2-4 pm and 7-11 pm
Tuesday 2-4 pm and 7-11 pm
Wednesday 2-4 pm and 7-11 pm
Thursday 2-4 pm and 7-11 pm
Friday 2-4 pm
The Listening Center is intended primarily for the use of music
faculty and for students who are enrolled in College of Wooster
music courses. Recordings may not be checked out by students,
non-music faculty or staff, or townspeople. A music faculty member
may check out recordings on behalf of another person such as a
student or a non-music faculty member, but the music faculty member
then assumes responsibility for the return of the recording. Music
faculty must write their names and the date on the checkout cards
when removing recordings from the audio library, and they should
not keep recordings out of the library for unnecessarily long
periods of time.
Any music faculty member may order recordings for the Listening
Center. Special order forms for this purpose may be obtained from
the Music Secretary. When a form is filled out, it should be passed
on to the Department library liaison for approval. Although students
may not order recordings directly, they may ask a faculty member
to order on their behalf.
Recordings in Scheide Music Center are the property of the
College. Orders are processed by Andrews Library staff, who receive
and then catalogue them.
Student Lounge
The Student Lounge is Room 102 of Scheide Music Center. Students
may use this lounge for study and relaxation. Any practice room
key also opens the Student Lounge. The kitchen attached to the
lounge is primarily for the preparation of receptions following
recitals or other College events. It may not be used by anyone
for the preparation of food for any event which is not College-sponsored.
Lockers
Lockers are located in the practice room corridor, the Student
Lounge, and the Instrument Storage Room adjoining Timken Rehearsal
Room. They are intended for use by students who are enrolled in
applied music courses at the College or in performing groups which
receive College credit. Music students who wish to obtain a locker
in the practice room corridor or the Student Lounge should see
the Music Secretary. Lockers in the Instrument Storage Room are
primarily for storage of school-owned instruments and instruments
which are too large for the other lockers. Those needing a locker
in the Instrument Storage Room should see the Director of Bands.
No-Smoking
Policy
No smoking is permitted anywhere in the Scheide Music Center including
practice rooms, corridors, and rest rooms. This rule is for the
protection of instruments and music owned by students as much
as for the protection of College property and the health of all
who use the building.
McGaw Chapel
The other College facility used by the Music Department is
McGaw Chapel. It is used mainly for organ lessons and recitals,
organ practice, and concerts by some of the performing groups.
McGaw is used for many different purposes by many campus organizations.
For that reason, the only Music Department uses of McGaw which
are unalterable are scheduled concerts. Organ teaching and practice
times may be usurped if they are needed for some other public
event, and the Director of Lowry Center has the authority to make
such decisions.
All scheduling of rehearsal times and concerts in McGaw is
done through the Music Secretary, who makes the arrangements with
the Facilities Scheduling Office in Lowry Center. Directors of
large performing groups should request their rehearsal times when
they schedule concerts--usually towards the end of the preceding
school year. Faculty giving recitals in McGaw will be granted
as much practice time in the building as they request; students
giving recitals will be granted as much practice time as is recommended
by their applied teachers.
Organ practice in McGaw is limited to students currently registered for applied
organ lessons at the College; the College organist; and the organist for Westminster
Church, which meets in McGaw. Priorities for practice are as follows:
1. Organ students with performances approaching
2. Organ majors without performances approaching
3. Other organ students
Time may be reserved for any given week through the Music Secretary
beginning on Monday morning of that week. The Secretary may enforce
the priorities listed above.
It may sometimes be necessary for a student to have a key to
McGaw. The key may be obtained through the Music Secretary and
it must be returned on the next morning of classes.
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