Music, serpent, 1975

This image shows music major Gary Stewart holding a handmade serpent in a room in the Department of Music at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in February 1975. The serpent was an obsolete bass wind instrument. Stewart created the instrument for an independent study project, taking an estimated five hundred hours to create a working model of a Belgium serpent, circa 1780-1800. A record player can be seen in the background. A music stand in the foreground reads, "ASU Music Dept. Room III." The Department of Music became the Hayes School of Music in 1988 and was named for Mariam Cannon Hayes, former member of the Appalachian State Board of Trustees and current member of the Hayes School of Music Advisory Board. The School of Music provides majors in Music Education, Music Performance, Music Therapy, Sacred Music, Composition and Theory, Music Industry Studies, and Jazz Studies. The Department is a member of the National Association of Schools of Music, and students perform recitals and concerts throughout the year.

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General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 12, Music F2, C14.2.2.6.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

1975-02

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Appalachian State University. College of Fine and Applied Arts. School of Music. Department of Music Education

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

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