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Lincoln Hall Renovation and Expansion What did all of this mean for the areas of study within the Department of Music, including musicology, composition, and performance?
Like many other inhabitants of Lincoln Hall, Cornell's composers experienced a quantum leap when we moved from a 19th-century facility into a 21st-century one. The technical facilities for students to work on digital composition doubled. The Music Library's contemporary scores, which languished in closed stacks in Lincoln and Olin Library, are once more available for browsing and study. Doctoral composition students are heavily involved in the music theory curriculum as teaching assistants, and they are among the main beneficiaries of new, up-to-date music theory classrooms and a state-of-the-art digital keyboard lab. Rehearsals of new music, whether by the student-led Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players or the faculty's Ensemble X, used to take place all over the campus, wherever we could find space and wherever we could haul the percussion instruments and electronic gear that this music often demands. No more; now the instruments and equipment are right on hand in a beautiful new rehearsal and recording space. In fact, Ensemble X made its first CD in January 2001, right there in Lincoln Hall. |
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