Music
- Kenny Aronoff, drummer
- Jamey Aebersold, jazz educator
- Emilie Autumn, gothic violinist and singer (dropped out after her sophomore year)
- David Baker, jazz composer
- Klara Barlow, operatic soprano
- Joshua Bell, violinist
- Chris Botti, jazz trumpeter
- Cary Boyce, composer
- Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist
- Angela Brown, soprano
- Lawrence Brownlee, operatic tenor
- Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist, first female American classical pianist awarded the Grammy
- Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor, author of the songs "Stardust" and "Georgia on My Mind"
- Jim Cornelison, award-winning tenor known for "Star Spangled Banner" performances before multiple Chicago sporting events
- John Clayton, jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger
- Peter Erskine, jazz drummer and educator
- Vivica Genaux, mezzo soprano
- Tom Gullion, jazz saxophonist
- Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer
- Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano and soprano. A scholarship is given in her name at the Jacobs School of Music.
- Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer and frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs
- Charles Kullman, Metropolitan Opera tenor and chair of voice department
- Sylvia McNair, internationally acclaimed soprano
- Edgar Meyer, bassist, MacArthur Fellow
- Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator
- Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until 2004
- Eileen Strempel, soprano and educator
- Michael Sweeney, concert band and jazz composer
- Pharez Whitted, jazz trumpet and composer
- Pete Wilhoit, jazz and rock drummer and percussionist
- Straight No Chaser, a cappella group at IU 1996-1999; re-Formed in 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“The music is in minors.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“See where my Love sits in the beds of spices,
Beset all round with camphor, myrrh, and roses,
And interlaced with curious devices
Which her apart from all the world incloses!
There doth she tune her lute for her delight,
And with sweet music makes the ground to move,
Whilst I, poor I, do sit in heavy plight,
Wailing alone my unrespected love;”
—Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602)