HMC Building Basics
This is the name of UT's main music building.
What is the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center?
In 2023, the School of Music was upgraded to this.
What is a college?
The only country artist to have a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for six straight decades?
Who is Dolly Parton?
This interval is the distance between a B natural and a F sharp.
What is a Perfect Fifth?
This UT band tradition involved a precise geometric marching pattern that has become nationally recognized.
What is Circle Drill?
This year the building officially opened to students.
What is 2013?
This dog is a member of the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music Faculty.
Who is Claire-Belle?
This faculty member was a drum major from 1998-1999.
Who is Dr. Fuller Lyon?
This non-chord tone is approached by leap and resolved by step in the opposite direction.
What is an appoggiatura?
This tradition is for celebrating the College of Music's successes throughout the year.
What is The College of Music's Convocation?
The building was funded in part by a major donation form this Knoxville family.
Who are the Haslams?
UT's music college holds this distinciton within the SEC.
What is the first standalone College of Music in the SEC?
This composer's 1952 work consists of performers not intentionally playing their instruments for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, redefining the concept of music itself.
Who is John Cage?
What is the quality of a chord if the notes include G Bb Db F.
What is a G half-diminished chord?
This annual performance tradition at the University of Tennessee showcases student ensembles from the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music in a featured concert for the campus community.
What is Salute to the Hill?
The glass exterior is designed to resemble this music notation feature.
What is sheet music (musical staff)?
UT's music program holds this elite piano designation?
What is All-Steinway School?
This Russian composer wrote many popular pieces including, "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor".
Who is Sergei Rachmaninoff?
This technique involved repeating rhythmic patterns (talea) and melodic patterns (colour) independently.
What is isorhythm?
This campus superstition warns that stepping on this official university emblem embedded in a prominent campus walkway will prevent you from graduating on time.
What is the University of Tennessee Seal?
This architectural concept explains why the building uses extensive glass and open visual lines to symbolically represent this fundamental aspect of music.
What is the idea of music as an open, shared art form?
Fewer than this approximate number of schools worldwide share UT's All-Steinway designation.
What is about 250?
This term describes the blend and balance technique required to match tone colour across different instrument families in a wind ensemble.
What is timbral matching?
This combinatorial property allows a hexachord to combine with a transposed or inverted form of itself to complete the aggregate without pitch duplication.
What is hexachordal combinatoriality?
This nickname refers to the Pride of the Southland Band's role as one of the oldest collegiate marching bands in the Southeast, often emphasizing its continuous performance tradition.
What is "The Showband of the South?"