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Statement of Mission

The Mission of the Music Department is to teach majors and non-majors how to develop their full potential as musicians and to share the department's heritage of excellence in notable performances on the Gustavus Adolphus campus and with communities around this nation and the world.

The curriculum of the Music Department aspires to teach music students to intelligently and artistically express themselves through a broad range of genres in musical performance, composition, and discourse.

The music Department affirms the transformational nature of a mature understanding of the core value of music in a liberal arts education and promotes a passion for life-long engagement with music.

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Revised: July 21, 2009