The Towson University Music Department offers a comprehensive program which includes undergraduate, graduate, and preparatory studies. Committed to the University mission of providing a sound liberal arts and sciences education to a diverse student population, the Music Department offers a full range of musical opportunities to majors and non-majors in a learning environment supported by an excellent and diverse faculty. The Music Department stresses the development of musical skills, creativity, artistry, intellectual curiosity, and teacher preparation through instruction, performance, and original work encompassing Western art music, jazz and related popular styles, and the music of other cultures. As one of six departments in the College of Fine Arts and Communication the Music Department strongly encourages the interaction of the arts. It enriches the cultural life of the region through its scholarship, student and faculty concerts, lectures, and other public presentations.

The Music Department is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the Maryland State Department of Education.