ABSTRACT
University of Michigan, Lead Author
Additional Task Force Members:
Juan Chattah, University of Miami
Lee Higgins, Boston University/York St. John University
Victoria Lindsay Levine, Colorado College
Timothy Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
David Rudge, State University of New York at Fredonia
© 2016 Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major
Transforming Music Study from Its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors
Report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major November 2014
Photo credits:
Page 63 (gongs)—User:FA2010, Wikimedia Commons
Page 66 (guitar)—Tomgally, Wikimedia Commons
Page 68 (violins)—Pf1988, Wikimedia Commons
Page 72 (piano)—Wills16, Wikimedia Commons
In 2013, Patricia Shehan Campbell, President of The College Music Society, appointed a national task force to consider what it means to be an educated musician in the twenty-first century and to make recommendations for progressive change in the undergraduate music major curriculum. Over eighteen months, the task force met to craft a rationale and recommendations for advancing undergraduate preparation of music majors. The Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major (TFUMM) considered graduates’ potential for successful participation and leadership in contemporary and evolving musical cultures. Moreover, given the many challenges and opportunities facing professional musicians today, particularly in the classical music realm, TFUMM considered musicians’ roles in public life and how the curriculum might better reflect relevant needs, qualities, knowledge, and skills.
