音乐系致力于通过在文科范围内提供严格的音乐本科课程来教育学生。我们希望通过系内和整个校园内的多种服务来促进综合学生的学习。准学生-专业和非专业的学生-都可以找到各种文科和专业课程，以及各种表演合奏。我们还提供一系列校园音乐会，包括教员，嘉宾表演者，学生和学生合奏团。该系提供文学学士和理学学士学位的音乐课程，集中于古典表演，爵士表演，录音和电子音乐，以及在音乐流派和历史，古典和爵士表演，录音和电子音乐，音乐疗法和作曲方面提供广泛选修课程的一般音乐课程。所有音乐专业的学生都必须完成音乐以外的其他专业的辅修课程
The Department of Music strives to educate students by providing a rigorous undergraduate core program in music within the liberal arts context. We aspire to promote integrated student learning through a diversity of offerings within the department and across the campus. Prospective students - majors and non-majors alike - will find a variety of liberal arts and professional courses as well as a full range of performing ensembles. We also offer an extensive series of on-campus concerts involving faculty members, guest performers, students, and student ensembles.The department offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in Music, with concentrations in Classical Performance, Jazz Performance, and Recording & Electronic Music, as well as a general music program with broad elective offerings in music genres and history, classical and jazz performance, recording and electronic music, music therapy, and composition. All students majoring in Music are required to complete a minor or a second major in a subject other than music. A Music minor is also available. In graduate studies, we offer an acclaimed M.S. in Music Therapy. SUNY New Paltz is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).