The predecessor of the College of Music and Performing Arts, the Department of Music, was established in 1985, and enrolled music education majors in 1986, which was the earliest department to establish music education majors in Sichuan Province colleges and universities, and began to enroll undergraduates majoring in musicology in 2000.In December 2005, with the consent of the administrative office of the college, it was renamed as the School of Music of Mianyang Normal College, and was renamed as the School of Music and Performing Arts in January 2008. College of Music and Performing Arts. The college now has full-time musicology (music education), musicology (dance direction), music performance four-year undergraduate program and three-year specialist program in music education, with more than 800 full-time undergraduate and specialist students.