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The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999, is one of the premier music schools in the United States. Founded only four years after the University of Southern California itself, the Thornton School is the oldest continually operating arts institution in Southern California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 The School is located in the heart of the USC University Park Campus, south of downtown Los Angeles. The school gets its name in honor of a $25 million gift by Flora L. Thornton in 1999. At the time, this was the largest donation to a school of music in the United States. In 2006, she donated an additional $5 million to support the facility needs of the school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Flora L. Thornton )〕 The USC Thornton School is noted for quality programs such as orchestral studies, opera, jazz, early music, composition, Film Scoring and Music Industry. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine named the music school as one of the top-five in the country.〔Ljiljana Grubisic, (Thornton Faculty, Alums Win Grammys ), USC Public Relations, March 12, 2007, Accessed March 4, 2009.〕 A diverse school of music, Thornton is one of the few highly regarded music schools in the United States to offer a degree program in early music. Students of baroque, renaissance and medieval music (vocal or instrumental) may enroll in a specialized degree program in early music. Thornton was one of the first universities to offer an undergraduate program in Music Industry, a program still regarded as among the best in the country. Thornton offers the only comprehensive program in Scoring for Television and Film. It also has a unique program in studio guitar performance. In 2009, the Thornton School was again a trailblazer in collegiate music when it became the first university to offer a major in popular music performance and songwriting alongside its already prestigious classical and jazz programs. At the 2007 Grammy Awards, four alumni (out of six nominated) and four faculty members received awards, in addition to one faculty member receiving a special honor.〔 At the 2009 Grammy Awards, faculty and alumni won six awards.〔Jennifer Pons and Allison Engel, (USC Shines at the Grammys ), USC Public Relations, February 12, 2009, Accessed March 4, 2009.〕 ==Notable faculty (past and present)== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USC Thornton School of Music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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