University of North Texas College of Music

The University of North Texas College of Music, based in Denton, is a comprehensive music school among the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.UNT School of Music - About It developed the first jazz studies program in the nation, and it remains one of the top schools for jazz. 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 years. 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.

Overview The College of Music is a comprehensive institution of international rank. Its heritage dates back years, when North Texas was founded. The college has one of the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music,HEADS Data – Special Report, 2010–11, National Association of Schools of Music of which it has been a member for years. It has been among the largest music institutions of higher learning in North America since the 1940s. The college awards Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees and non-degree graduate artist certificates. Concentrations include performance, music composition, music education, music history, music theory, ethnomusicology, and jazz studies. Its size, its array of disciplines organized across eight academic divisions, its six research centers, its six major ensemble areas that produce over 70 ensembles, and the number of degrees offered — from bachelor's degrees to doctorates to artist certificates — allows the college the achieve the type of critical mass to be highly comprehensive (wide and deep) and prolific in academics, research, and performance, from big to small to standard to experimental to esoteric.

In performance, the public review of the college's total work is presented through over 1,000 student and faculty concerts, annually, which include fully mounted opera, grand chorus, symphonic orchestra, early music, chamber music, jazz, orchestra, winds, experimental music, intermedia, and ethno music. The music library, founded in 1941, has one of the largest music collections in the United States, with over 300,000 volumes of books, periodicals, scores, and approximately 900,000 sound recordings. Since the 1970s, approximately one-third of all North Texas music students have been enrolled at the graduate level. North Texas was first in the world to offer a degree in jazz studies. U.S. News & World Report, in its annual America's Best Graduate Schools, ranked the jazz studies program as the best in the country every year from 1994, when it began ranking graduate jazz programs, to 1997, when it retired the category.U.S. News & World Report The One O'Clock Lab Band has been nominated for 7 Grammy Awards.

Degrees, divisions, and centers The College of Music offers 19 programs leading to degrees and 1 leading to an artist certificate:Higher Education Data Service Data – Special Report, 2010-11, National Association of Schools of Music Note: For more than 20 years, North Texas Music enrollment has tracked closely to that of Indiana. Institutions that include Berklee, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music are not among the 627 NASM members. One non-NASM music school has a student enrollment larger than North Texas – Berklee. North TexasIndiana2006-071,6491,6382007-081,6591,6332008-091,6081,5542009-101,6351,5572010-111,5961,578

Divisions Academic and Performance DivisionsComposition StudiesConducting & EnsemblesInstrumental StudiesJazz StudiesKeyboard StudiesMusic EducationMusic History,Theory and EthnomusicologyVocal Studies DepartmentsChoralConductingBrassEthnomusicologyOperaStudiesEarlyMusicPercussionMusicHistoryVocalStudiesOrchestralConductingStringsMusicTheoryWindConductingWoodwinds

Centers Centers for Research and PerformanceCenter for Chamber Music StudiesCenter for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI)Center for Schenkerian StudiesTexas Center for Music and Medicine

Ensemble areas & prime groups Ensemble AreasOrchestralChoralWindCompositionStudiesCollegiumMusicumJazz Major Groups (of over 50 Ensembles)A CappellaChoirBrassBandNOVA(new music)BaroqueOrchestraContemporaryRepertory EnsembleConcertOrchestraChamberChoirConcertBandVox Aquilae (formerly Collegium Singers)JazzGuitar LabsSymphony OrchestraCollegiumSingersGreen BrigadeMarching BandBaroque EnsembleJazz RepertoryEnsembleConcertChoirWind SymphonyJazzSingers I & IIGrand ChorusSymphonicBandJazzStringsMen'sChorusWindEnsembleJazz TromboneEnsemble "The U-Tubes"RecitalChoirLabBands (9)OperaWorkshop

Former deans & current dean 1890–1891Eliza Jane McKissack (née Aykroyd) (aka Mrs. Alexander Cogle McKissack) (1828–1900) served as Director of what then was called Conservatory of Music, 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, 1890.1891–1892Mary Francis Long,"Kaleidoscope of Society: Denton," Dallas Morning News, Vol. III, No. 224, June 28, 1892, pg. 3, col. 4 from Geneva, Illinois, was an 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)"Musical College Commencement," Chicago Daily Tribune, June 24, 18911894–?Sarah ("Sallie") Frances Thornley"Happy Prosperous Denton: North Texas Normal College," Fort Worth Gazette, April 8, 1895, pg. 8, col. 2 (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."Personal," Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky, August 15, 1894, col. 4Obituary: "Mrs. Sallie Thornley," Dallas Morning News, July 13, 1921 Around 1883 (ending January 1884), Thornley had been a music teacher at Georgetown Female Seminary in Georgetown, Kentucky."Personals," Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), January 23, 1884, pg. 3, col. 2 In January 1884, Thornley enrolled at the College of Music of Cincinnati. In Maysville, Thornley taught music and was the organist at M. E. Church, South."Brooks-Adamson," Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), March 26, 1885, pg. 3, col. 2 In the spring of 1885, Thornley had served as head of music at a college in Sherman, Texas."Personals," Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Kentucky), June 25, 1885, pg. 4, col. 3 Around 1887, Thornley had been a music teacher at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky."Personal," Daily Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky, May 15, 1893, pg. 2, col. 21894–?Miss Edith MillerD. M. Anderson Directory Co.'s Business Directory and Handy Guide of Denton, pg. 14 (1894)1896–1897Celia Goldsmith1901–1902Mary Stuart Butler (23 March 1871 Kirkwood, Missouri — 29 November 1944 San Marcos, Texas) was the first music faculty of record after North Texas became a state institution in 1899. She was appointed by the Texas State Board of Education on July 6, 1901."Faculty of the North Texas Normal Completed," Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1901, pg. 23, col. 4 She was a vocal instructor who led a lifetime advocacy of music in public schools, not just for "intellectual luxury and restful agency," but for cultural and practical uses ranging from physiological development to self-expression to public speaking (enunciation, tones)."State Schools of Methods," Dallas Morning News, June 22, 1897 Prior to North Texas, Butler had overseen music education in the Austin Public Schools. After North Texas, she held positions at Texas State University in San Marcos (then a teachers college) and Louisiana Tech University.1902–1912Margaret Manora Boylan (born 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"),"Carthage Woman's Song Broadcast on Radio," The Joplin Globe, February 12, 1954, pg. 10A, col. 5 and Teachers College, Columbia University."Dramatic Reader to Appear Saturday," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 4, 1925 And, she was a published composer. At the New England Conservatory, she had studied three semesters from 1901 to 1902. At NEC, she studied piano with Edward Danforth Hale (1859–1945) and voice with William L. Whitney (1861–1949) and Alena G. Emerson. She took both piano and voice for all three semesters. In addition she took two semesters of Harmony with Harry Newton Redman (1869–1958) and two semesters of Music in Public School with Samuel Winkley Cole (1848–1926). She did not earn a diploma from New England Conservatory.