| University of North Texas College of Music |
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| Winspear Auditorium, Murchison Performing Arts Center, University of North Texas College of Music (photo by Craig D. Blackmon, FAIA, courtesy of Holzman Moss Architecture) | |
| Location | |
| 415 Avenue C Denton, TX 76201 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public — State of Texas |
| Established | 1890 |
| Dean | James Copeland Scott |
| Enrollment | 1635 (2009-10) |
| Campus | Suburban (North of Dallas & Ft. Worth) |
| Website | http://music.unt.edu Jazz Opera Composition Symphony Orchestra |
The University of North Texas College of Music, based in Denton, is a comprehensive music school with the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.[1] It is the oldest and first in the world to offer a degree in jazz studies. As one of thirteen colleges and schools at the University of North Texas, it has been among the largest music institutions of higher learning in North America since the 1940s. North Texas has been a member of the National Association of Schools of Music for 73 years.[2] Since the 1970s, approximately one-third of all North Texas music students have been enrolled at the graduate level. Music at North Texas dates back to the founding of the university in 1890 when Eliza Jane McKissack, its founding director, structured it as a conservatory.
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University enrollment
As of the fall of 2009, the University of North Texas had a certified enrollment of 36,890.[3] The enrollment data does not include the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth; but does include the UNT Dallas campus.
Science & engineering research
Over the last three decades, the University has expanded its research in science and engineering. In 2006, the National Science Foundation ranked UNT Denton campus 122nd among 417 academic institutions for number of science and engineering doctorates awarded.[4]
Research in the social sciences, humanities, professional fields, and other disciplines
Based on the number of non-science and engineering PhDs awarded at 2,722 national institutions of higher learning in the country, North Texas was ranked:
Of the 37 post-baccalaureate institutions in Texas surveyed by the National Science Foundation, UNT ranked third in 2006, behind The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University, for non science and engineering doctorates awarded.[4]
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies the University of North Texas as a "Research University" with "high research activity."[6]
Visual Arts & Design
UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design — one of the eleven colleges and schools on the Denton campus — has the 10th largest enrollment of any art and design school accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and has the second largest of any that awards doctorates.[7]
| Academic and Performance Divisions | |||||||
| Composition Studies | Conducting & Ensembles | Instrumental Studies | Jazz Studies | Keyboard Studies | Music Education | Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology |
Vocal Studies |
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| Choral Conducting |
Brass | Ethnomusicology | Opera Studies |
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| Early Music |
Percussion | Music History |
Vocal Studies |
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| Orchestral Conducting |
Strings | Music Theory |
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| Wind Conducting |
Woodwinds | ||||||
| Ensemble Areas | |||||
| Orchestral | Choral | Wind | Composition Studies |
Collegium Musicum |
Jazz |
| Major Groups (of over 50 Ensembles) | |||||
| A Cappella Choir |
Brass Band |
NOVA (new music) |
Baroque Orchestra |
Contemporary Repertory Ensemble |
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| Concert Orchestra |
Chamber Choir |
Concert Band |
Collegium Singers |
Jazz Guitar Labs |
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| Symphony Orchestra | Collegium Singers |
Green Brigade Marching Band |
Baroque Ensemble | Jazz Repertory Ensemble |
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| Concert Choir |
Wind Symphony | Jazz Singers I & II |
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| Grand Chorus | Symphonic Band |
Jazz Strings |
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| Men's Chorus |
Symphonic Band |
Jazz Trombone Ensemble "The U-Tubes" |
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| Recital Choir |
Lab Bands (9) |
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North Texas Wind Symphony
Works for Wind Symphony by Percy Grainger
One O'Clock Lab Band
Percussion
Paris Rutherford, director (retired 2009)
Miscellaneous
Music Library
| 1890–1891 | Eliza Jane McKissack (née Aykroyd) (aka Mrs. Alexander Cogle McKissack) (1828–1900) served as Director of what then was called Conservatory of Music,[8] part of what then was the Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute, which was established as a private institution in 1890. Classes were first held Tuesday, September 16, 1890. |
| 1891-1892 | Miss Mary Francis Long,[9] from Geneva, Illinois, was a 1891 graduate of Chicago Musical College where, during her senior year, she won the William M. Hoyt Prize (the Diamond Medal for the best student in harmony in the graduating class)[10] |
| 1894–? | Sarah ("Sallie") Frances Thornley[11] (née Cummings) (b. 1854 Mason County, Kentucky; d. 11 July 1921 Dallas, Texas; buried at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Denton, Texas) – was originally from Maysville, Kentucky.[12][13] Around 1883 (ending January 1884), Thornley had been a music teacher at Georgetown Female Seminary in Georgetown, Kentucky.[14] In January 1884, Thornley enrolled at the College of Music of Cincinnati.[15] In Maysville, Thornley taught music and was the organist at M. E. Church, South.[16] In the spring of 1885, Thornley had served as head of music at a college in Sherman, Texas.[17] Around 1887, Thornley had been a music teacher at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky.[18] |
| 1894–? | Miss Edith Miller[19] |
| 1896–1897 | Miss Celia Goldsmith |
| 1902–1912 | Margaret Manora Boylan (b. 1867, Hubbard, Iowa; d 1963, Carthage, Missouri) served as Director of Music and Reading. Before beginning a career of teaching on the faculties of several colleges throughout the country, she had attended summer school at Ginn summer school in Chicago, New England Conservatory ("NEC"),[20] and Teachers College, Columbia University.[21] And, she was a published composer.
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| 1914–1915 | Harry Milton Snow (b. 19 Sept 1879, Big Lake, Minnesota; d. 23 Apr. 1954, Los Angeles) studied music at the New England Conservatory[22] from the first semester of 1905 (Fall 1904) through the second semester of 1909 and then for two more semesters in 1912 (when he studied only cello with Virginia Stickney; later known as Mrs. Frances Williams Snow; 1886–1972). Harry Snow graduated June 22, 1909, with a diploma in voice as a teacher. His voice teachers were Arthur Dwight Babcock (1875–1970) and Charles Adams White (1856–1928). He also studied piano for seven semesters with Alfred Pietro Angelo Devoto (born 1875). In addition he studied solfège, Italian, drama, music history, music theory, analysis, English, harmony, French, German, school music, and vocal teaching (called Normal Department). |
| 1917–1938 | Lillian M. Parrill (1881–1973) served as Director of what then was a Music Department. North Texas announced her appointment as a new faculty member July 15, 1915. In addition to heading the department, she conducted the chorus, which, in 1929, had 103 members.[23] The next year, 1930, under her direction, the chorus expanded to 150.[24] Initially from Vincennes, Indiana, Parrill had studied voice with Oscar Saenger (1868–1929) of New York City and Charles Washburn at Ward–Belmont College, in Nashville. She was a graduate of the American Institute of Normal Methods (Northwestern University), Evanston, Illinois, and had served as supervisor of music in Elwood, Indiana.[25] In July 1941, in Denton, she married Fred O. Grissom[26] (1876–1978). She resigned as Associate Professor in September 1941[27] and henceforth lived in Kinmundy, Illinois, with her husband. She died June 10, 1973, in Kinmundy, Illinois.[28] The 1917 Yucca (student yearbook) lists Mary Anderson as being on the music faculty with Parrill. |
| 1938–1947 | Wilfred Conwell Bain, EdD (1908–1997) built the School of Music into one of the largest in the country. By 1940, North Texas was the largest state supported teachers college in the world.[29] Bain was appointed in 1938 as head of what then was a "deanless" school of music. In 1945, when what then was North Texas State Teachers College became North Texas State College — a name change that reflected broader offerings — an administrative reorganization gave the School of Music its own dean, which was filled by Bain. He founded and directed the School's A Cappella Choir and the Opera Workshop. The A Capella Choir, one of dozens of the School's performing groups, performed over 500 concerts in five states between 1940 and 1945. In 1945, the choir performed several tours for civilian and Army groups in Texas in camps to promote bond sales and entertain sick and wounded service personnel.[30] |
| 1947–1958 | Walter Hutchinson Hodgson, PhD (1904–1988), conductor of the school's Symphony Orchestra and founding conductor of the Madrigal Singers, and a sacred music scholar, approved (as acting Dean) in 1947 Gene Hall's proposal for a bachelors degree in "Dance Band," the first jazz studies degree offered in the world. In 1958, Dr. Hodgson accepted an offer to become Dean of the Michigan State University School of Music. |
| 1958–1974 | Kenneth Neil Cuthbert, EdD (1917–1984), who, in addition to serving as dean, was a choral and instrumental conductor. Cuthbert earned a Bachelor of Music in 1940 and a Master of Music in 1942 from the University of Wisconsin. He also earned a Master of Arts in 1946 and a Doctor of Education in 1947 from Teachers College, Columbia University. From 1951 to 1958, Cuthbert had served on the faculty at East Carolina University and from 1948 to 1951 he had served as Dean of the School of Music at Illinois Wesleyan University. Also prior to his North Texas tenure, he had served as Vice President of the National Association of Schools of Music for three years.[31] |
| 1974–1987 | Marceau Chevalier Myers, EdD (1929–1987), a scholar of American orchestral composers with a strong affinity for Charles Ives, oversaw a surge in enrollment that made the School the nation's second largest within a major university. Myers also spearheaded the planning and completion of the a new Music Complex that had been initiated under Dean Cuthbert. Under Myers' leadership, the school gained greater international acclaim from an expanded touring initiative by several music ensembles – tours that included Western Europe, the Russia, South America, the and the Far East. |
| 1987–1988 | Stephen Thomas Farish, Jr., DMA (1936–1995), (Interim Dean) was a singer (baritone) and professor of voice. He earned his DMA from the University of Illinois in 1962 and, that same year, joined the UNT faculty. |
| 1988–1991 | Robert Lewis Blocker, DMA (UNT MM 70 DMA 72) (born 1946) is the current Dean of the Yale School of Music (a graduate school) |
| 1991–1992 | Stephen Thomas Farish, Jr., DMA (1936–1995) (Interim Dean) |
| 1992–1996 | David Lewis Shrader, DMA (born 1939), a percussionist and composer, served as Dean for 7 years. In 1996, the UNT Chancellor asked Shrader to serve as Interim Director of Development for the University. The former Director had died. Shrader obliged, serving for one year. Dr. Will May stepped-in as Interim Dean for one year. |
| 1996–1997 | William "Will" Vernon May, Jr., PhD (UNT MME 75) (Interim Dean) |
| 1997–1999 | David Lewis Shrader, DMA, oversaw the opening of the Murchison Performing Arts Center in February 1999 – a 40-year institutional objective. |
| 1999–2000 | William "Will" Vernon May, Jr., PhD (UNT MME '75) (Interim Dean) |
| 2000–2001 | Thomas Clark, DMA (born 1949), a composer and trombonist, and now UNT Professor Emeritus, served once as Interim Dean of the College of Music. |
| 2001–Present | James Copeland Scott, DMA (born 1943) is a flutist, pianist, and music theory scholar who has researched structural relationship between Schoenberg and Brahms. |
| Notes: | Frank Douglas Mainous (1918–2007), a composer, music theory scholar, and director of military bands during World War II, served as interim dean at least twice. He was married to concert pianist and faculty member Jean Mainous, née Harris.[32] He earned a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1941. |
| North Texas | Indiana | |
| 2006-07 | 1,649 | 1,638 |
| 2007-08 | 1,659 | 1,633 |
| 2008-09 | 1,608 | 1,554 |
| 2009-10 | 1,635 | 1,557 |
| 2010-11 | 1,596 | 1,578 |
| College of Visual Art Design |
Size Rank |
Size Rank with Doctorates |
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| 2006-07 | 2443 | 7 | 1 |
| 2007-08 | 2206 | 10 | 2 |
| 2008-09 | 2265 | 10 | 2 |
| 2009-10 | 2290 | 10 | 2 |
| 2010-11 | 2324 | 10 | 2 |