Welcome to the Center for Applied Research in Musical Understanding (CARMU)

Our mission:

• To transform practice in music education

• To build and advance a research-based pedagogy of teaching for musical understanding

• To support PreK-12 music educators in Michigan, the United States, and internationally

• To demonstrate how research informs professional practice in music education

• To seek national and international eminence in applied research in musical understanding at Oakland University

• To support faculty, graduate, and undergraduate research in musical understanding