School of Music Student Organizations
The School of Music offers many opportunities for professional
and social involvement through the student organizations listed
below.
American Choral Directors Association
Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association
(ACDA) is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central
purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through
performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching. In
addition, ACDA strives through arts advocacy to elevate choral
music's position in American society.
ACDA membership consists of approximately 18,000 choral
directors who represent more than one million singers across the
United States. ACDA members teach choral music in public and
private schools - kindergarten through senior high school - and at
the college and university levels. They conduct a variety of choral
groups, including boy-choirs, children's choirs, men's and women's
choruses, junior and senior high school choirs, college and
university choruses, ethnic choirs, vocal-jazz ensembles, and
symphony choruses. They also conduct choirs in their communities
and in their places of worship.
National Website: www.acda.org
Kappa Kappa Psi: Alpha Beta Chapter
Founded in 1919, Kappa Kappa Psi is a fraternal organization
that promotes the advancement of college and university bands
through dedicated service and support to bands, comprehensive
education, leadership opportunities, and recognition, for the
benefit of its members and society.
National Website: www.kkytbs.org
Chapter Website: www.butler.edu/studentlife/kkpsi
Tau Beta Sigma: Epsilon Chapter
Tau Beta Sigma operates primarily as a student service and
leadership recognition society whose chief aim is to assist the
directors in developing the leadership and enthusiasm that they
require of their band. TBS goals are not only to provide the band
with organized and concentrated service activities, but to give the
group's membership valid and wholesome experiences in organization,
leadership, and social contacts.
The honorary nature of membership is based on the premise that
"it is an honor to be selected to serve" -- this band, its School
of Music, its sponsoring institution, and the cause of band music
in the nations colleges and universities.
National Website: www.kkytbs.org
Chapter Website: www.butler.edu/studentlife/tbsigma
Mu Phi Epsilon
Mu Phi Epsilon is an International Professional Music Fraternity
whose purposes are the recognition of scholarship and musicianship
and the promotion of friendship. Its aims are the advancement of
music throughout the world, the promotion of musicianship and
scholarship, loyalty to the Alma Mater, and the development of a
true bond of friendship.
The Fraternity is composed of collegiate chapters, alumni
chapters and allied members. The history of Mu Phi Epsilon dates
from November 13, 1903. Today, Mu Phi Epsilon has 128 collegiate
chapters including two in the Phillippines, one in Canada, 74
alumni chapters, and more than 70,000 members.
National Website: http://www.muphiepsilon.org/
National Association for Music Education (formerly
M.E.N.C.)
The National Association for Music Education is the only
national association that addresses every aspect of music
education-band, chorus, orchestra, general music, teacher
education, and research. NAfME's more than 130,000 members
represent all levels of teaching, from prekindergarten through
postgraduate. Since 1907, the National Association for Music
Education has worked to ensure that every student has access to a
comprehensive, sequential, and high-quality program of music
education. NAfME's activities and resources have been largely
responsible for the establishment of music education as a
profession, and for the promotion and guidance of music study as an
integral part of the school curriculum.
Butler's student chapter of NAfME has won both state and
national awards, including the "Outstanding Chapter in Indiana" in
1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, and 2012.
Additionally, several students from Butler have received the
"Outstanding Future Music Educator Award" from the Indiana Music
Educators Association and the "Professional Achievement Award" from
the National Association for Music Educators.
National Website: www.nafme.org
Music Teachers National Conference
The mission of MTNA is to advance the value of music study and
music making in society and to support the professionalism of music
teachers. MTNA is an organization essential not only to the
professional and individual well-being of music-teaching
professionals, but also a vital partner in their growth and
development. It provides both a collective voice for teachers
worldwide and a powerful alliance with a highly prestigious and
influential group.
With nearly 22,000 members in 50 states, and more than 500 local
affiliates, the MTNA is the preeminent source for music teacher
support, where members embody like-minded values and commitment to
their students, colleagues and society as a whole, while reaping
the rewards of collaboration, continuity and connection throughout
the lifetime of their careers.
National Website: www.mtna.org
State Website: www.indmta.org
Chapter Website: www.butler.edu/music/piano/mtna-collegiate-chapter
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia: Alpha Sigma Chapter
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was founded on October 6, 1898, at the New
England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Since then
it has grown into the largest music fraternity in the world with
over 126,000 initiates and chapters and colonies on over 210
college and university campuses across America. This organization
offers a positive opportunity for personal and musical growth to
men seriously committed to the advancement of music in America and
to developing the qualities of leadership necessary to accomplish
that goal.
Today the spirit of Sinfonia carries on the ideals of its
founding fathers: To encourage and actively promote the highest
standards of creativity, performance, education, and research in
music in America; To develop and encourage loyalty to the Alma
Mater; To foster the mutual welfare and brotherhood of students of
music; To develop the truest fraternal spirit among its members; To
instill in all people an awareness of music's important role in the
enrichment of the human spirit.
National Website: www.sinfonia.org
Chapter Website: www.butler.edu/studentlife/sinfonia/Sinfonia/welcome.html
Sigma Alpha Iota: Zeta Chapter
Sigma Alpha Iota, International Music Fraternity, was organized
in 1903 "to form chapters of music students and musicians who shall
by their influence and their musical interest uphold the highest
ideals of a music education; to raise the standard of productive
musical work among the women students of colleges, conservatories
and universities." Its membership includes over 180 active college
chapters and 110 alumnae chapters throughout the United States.
National Website: www.sigmaalphaiota.org/home