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Dalton Center

The School of Music and Department of Dance are housed in the Dorothy U. Dalton Center, which offers some of the finest music rehearsal, study, practice, and performance spaces in the world. Adjacent to the nationally recognized James W. Miller Auditorium, the Dalton Center boasts 157,000 square feet of space (equivalent to 4.5 football fields).

Its distinctive spaces include two recital halls, a multi-track digital recording studio, an electronic music laboratory, a 10,000 square foot music library, a state-of-the-art multi-media room, a music therapy clinic, a computer laboratory featuring a special MIDI station and Macintosh PowerPC computers (each equipped with a Yamaha synthesizer and a Roland sound module), and one of the world's largest installations of pre-fabricated, sound-isolated practice rooms and teaching studios.

Department of Dance
Studio A Room 3118	Studio B Room 3116
Two large studios and one medium studio are available for technique courses and rehearsals. Each is equipped with a piano, percussion instruments, and sound playback units. A small studio is available for warm-up and solo and duet rehearsals. "Floating" floors in all studios, some covered with specialized vinyl dance flooring, help provide a safe environment for performance of challenging dance repertory.
Conditioning Room Room 3121	Music and Dance Library Room 3006
The conditioning room is equipped with two Current Concepts™ Studio Reformers, an exercise mat, mirrors and anatomical charts. Locker rooms are equipped with lockers for each major student, showers, make-up lights, hairdryers and rest rooms.	Also known as the Harper C. Maybee Music and Dance Library, our library supports study and research in music and dance with a variety of resources and services. Web Site: http://www.wmich.edu/library/depts/music-dance/
School of Music
Choral Rehearsal Room Room 1116	Instrumental Rehearsal Room Room 1120
A large rehearsal space with 25-foot ceilings acoustically isolated, designed, and equipped for choral ensembles.	Also with 25-foot ceilings, the largest rehearsal space in Dalton Center is designed for bands and orchestras, and is capable of accommodating a 75-piece orchestra with a 200-voice chorus.
Noack Organ Studio Room 1136	Recital Hall Room 1004
A large rehearsal space with 25-foot ceilings acoustically isolated, designed, and equipped for choral ensembles.	Also with 25-foot ceilings, the largest rehearsal space in Dalton Center is designed for bands and orchestras, and is capable of accommodating a 75-piece orchestra with a 200-voice chorus.
Electronic Music Lab Room 2004	Carmel Elliot Provencal Suite Room 3021
A large rehearsal space with 25-foot ceilings acoustically isolated, designed, and equipped for choral ensembles.	Also with 25-foot ceilings, the largest rehearsal space in Dalton Center is designed for bands and orchestras, and is capable of accommodating a 75-piece orchestra with a 200-voice chorus.
Western Sound Studios Room 2005 This multi-track digital facility is designed to accommodate the recording of chamber music and jazz. The Central Recording Control room primarily serves the Recording Studio and Recital Hall but is also interconnected to microphones in all three large rehearsal rooms, the Electronic Music Studio, and the Multi-Media Room.