These include the Jazz Ensemble, the Wind Ensemble, Collegium Musicum for the performance of early music, the Chamber Singers, the Choral Society, the Orchestra, the Javanese Gamelan ensemble, and chamber groups. The Jazz Ensemble has recorded two CDs and has toured Europe. Several performance groups participate in a program funded by the Gluck Foundation to take music into the schools, hospitals, and other institutions in the surrounding community. Members of Gluck performing groups are remunerated for their off-campus performances. The Department has a studio equipped for electronic and computer music.
Most practice rooms have grand pianos, and some have pipe organs, harpsichords, or forte-pianos.
A fine collection of band, orchestral, and early instruments is available for student use, as is the gamelan, an ensemble of Indonesian instruments. The Music Library has a good collection of scores, records, and CDs. The University Honors Program offers lower-division courses taught by distinguished faculty and introduces undergraduates to the challenges and rewards of scholarship and research from the beginning of their undergraduate careers. In the upper division, the program invites outstanding students to design and produce honors theses and projects under individual faculty supervision. Through the departmental Honors Program, highly qualified students are invited to conduct a research thesis of their own initiative and design in collaboration with a faculty member.