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The Center for Electronic and Computer Music was established in 1966 by Iannis Xenakis as a mirror to the Centre for Automated and Mathematical Music in Paris. Created for the purposes of theoretical training, electronic and multimedia composition, and the dissemination of works through public concerts, CECM today houses two studios which employ the most current technologies in digital sound synthesis and sampling, interactive music programming and performance, MIDI, digital recording and editing, video, and research-level computing. The curriculum provides an extensive technical training and historical background for composition students with little or no previous technical experience. More advanced students may enroll to use the studio facilities for the production of compositions and multimedia works, as well as for research.

Established in 1998, the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature provides a home for such international projects as the Thesaurus musicarum latinarum (TML; an eight-million-word searchable archive of Latin music theory ranging from the time of Augustine through the early seventeenth century); TML’s three sister projects Traités français sur la musique, Saggi musicali italiani, and Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (music treatises in French, Italian and English); and the annotated bibliography on Musical Borrowing. Other projects are currently under development. Information at www.chmtl.indiana.edu.

The Historical Performance Institute is a center for research and creative activity of international significance related to the performance practice of medieval, renaissance, baroque, and classical music, as well as a teaching department of the Jacobs School of Music. The Institute publishes new research in historical performance through a monograph series of the Indiana University Press, and it releases numerous recordings through Focus Records (IU Music). The HPI additionally maintains the Thomas Binkley Archive of Early Music Sound Recordings, as well as extensive holdings of period instruments.

The Latin American Music Center fosters the research and performance of Latin American art music and promotes professional and academic exchange between musicians and scholars from the United States and Latin America. The center’s activities include concerts, commissions, premiere performances and recordings, courses in Latin American music history, visits by distinguished performing artists and lecturers, festivals, and seminars. The Latin American Music Center makes available to scholars, performers, and institutions the most complete library of Latin American art music in the world.

The Office of Pre-College and Summer Programs administers all aspects of workshops, masterclasses, conferences, and special programs for the Jacobs School of Music. In addition, the office runs the ongoing pre-college program and the summer residential pre-college academies.

The William and Gayle Cook Music Library spans four floors of the Beth Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center. With approximately 700,000 cataloged items, it is recognized as one of the largest music libraries in the United States. The Music Library’s primary collection of printed research materials includes more than 580,000 cataloged items. The strengths of the collection include: extensive holdings of printed music from all periods of music history, with a special emphasis on opera; theory treatises from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century; Russian/Soviet music, Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War; early keyboard and violin primary source materials (the Willi Apel collections); Black and Latin American music collections; and historical monuments and composers’ collected works. In addition, the performing ensembles collection contains scores and parts for large ensembles, including virtually all of the standard orchestral and choral repertoire in support of the Jacobs School of Music’s several choirs and orchestras. The Music Library also provides access to a number of electronic resources as detailed on its website. The ongoing Variations project has digitized more than 30,000 sound recordings and scores. Of the 120 public computers (Windows and Macintosh) in the library, more than half have MIDI keyboards, all with associated music software. Further information is available at http://libraries.iub.edu/music.

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