• Mission

To form graduates capable of promoting researches that disseminate art, culture and science in the fields of knowledge related to the PPMU's research lines, providing innovation, social, academic and artistic impacts beyond the regional insertion of the Program, projecting the Federal University of Uberlandia (UFU) in the academic and cultural, national and international scenario.

• Vocation

We are an academic staff consisting of thirteen teachers with a large variety of specialties organized in tree research lines: 1-) Production, transmission and reception of music in the society; 2-) Process and foundations of creation and musical performance, and 3-) Historic and aesthetic studies of music. The projects of professors' researches embrace a large variety of themes, including performance, interpretation, old music, music and technology, teaching and musical pedagogy, musical aesthetic and philosophy, popular and jazz music, among others. With a large scientific production, the PPMU's academic staff has a large experience in training undergraduate and master degree students at the Federal University of Uberlandia (UFU), and it is committed to to provide its students with a solid musical, personal and humanistic education, seeking to make them critical, sensitive and autonomous citizens which are able to perform their roles in society.

• Objectives
  1. – To qualify professionals with a high academic level, capable of articulating a solid bibliography, well applied methodologies and references, contributing with critical reflections in the fields of research of their dissertations;
  2. – To encourage expertise without losing broadness in the students’ research processes through a curricular structure which is flexible enough to ground and support the discussions which are carried out by the students’ research;
  3. – To develop research in the field of musicology, musical interpretation, musical creation, ancient music, music and technology, documentation of artistic-musical heritage or musical education;
  4. – To articulate theoretical and practical knowledge of undergraduate courses in the environment and in the Graduate proposals, offering in this field of activity the consciousness and applicability of concepts previously studied in the service of the students’ research project; 
  5. – To provide students with models, processes and guidance that respond and reinforce the verticality between disciplines, research lines and professor research at PPMU;
  6. – To stimulate the exercise of contributing to the global impact of the research which is performed independently of the insertion of the research objects themselves, whether they are local, regional, national or international; 
  7. – To be guided by the search of the values which were planned in the UN 2030 agenda, in particular the SDG's Goal 4 “Quality Education”, which aims “to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”, and is recognized as a way to directly or indirectly achieve other SDG goals, such as promoting decent work and economic growth (SDG's Goal 8) and reducing inequalities (SDG's Goal 10).