Music

Mission

The Department of Music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell strives: 
  • To create a musical community that values and is rich with cultural, social, and intellectual diversity. 
  • To give the student an intensive professional education in his or her musical discipline. 
  • To prepare each student with a strong, integrated foundation in creative musicianship. To develop an informed and inquiring mind that enables each graduate to engage the fundamental issues of his or her art and to become an effective cultural leader in their communities. 
  • To prioritize student success through offering the highest quality music instruction and opportunities for community engagement at an affordable cost.

Requirements of the Major

Core Learning Outcomes

  • Acquire instrumental or vocal mastery through regular performance
  • Attain literacy in global musical culture
  • Understand core compositional and analytical techniques covering a broad variety of musical styles 
  • Develop collaborative skills through participation in ensembles

Music Performance Learning Outcomes

  • Be sufficiently prepared for viable careers in performance through acquisition of technical, creative, and entrepreneurial skills; 
  • Develop tools and techniques to promote, preserve and advance live music and the performing arts in American society; and 
  • Assimilate the requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes required to produce the next generation of musical innovators, thinkers, and leaders.