The School of Music of Nanyang Normal University was founded in 1958. It was formerly the Music Department of Nanyang Normal University. In 2006, it developed into the School of Music of Nanyang Normal University. At present, it has become the earliest music conservatory with the strongest teaching staff in southwest Henan.

The college currently has 62 faculty members, including 56 full-time teachers and 6 full-time managers. Professor Zhao Dengying, a doctoral supervisor at the Central Conservatory of Music, has been hired as a distinguished professor, and 12 well-known domestic experts and professors, including Du Yaxiong, Zhao Weimin, Han Baoqiang, Qin Xu, Zhu Jingxiu, Tang Guiqing and Wang Siqi, have been hired as visiting professors. Among the full-time teachers, there is 1 Wolong scholar, 9 professors, 11 associate professors, 32 lecturers, and 4 teaching assistants, accounting for 35.71% of teachers with senior professional titles; 5 people have doctorates, accounting for 8.93%; and 36 people have master's degrees, accounting for 8.93%. 64.29; there are 964 students on campus, and the teacher-student ratio reaches 1:17.

The college currently offers three undergraduate majors: musicology, music performance and dance choreography. The musicology major is "Henan Province's first-class undergraduate major", and the "computer music" course is a provincial-level high-quality online open course. Relying on Nanyang's rich folk cultural resources, the college has established the Ministry of Culture's "Central Plains Folk Art Research Base", "Henan Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center" and "Henan Province's First Batch of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance Base - Major Tune Opera". The college adheres to the basic training principles of "wide caliber, solid foundation, strong practice, emphasis on individuality, and high quality", promotes collaborative education and practical education in parallel, reforms teaching content and teaching methods, and prepares for the healthy growth of music scholars. , create the most favorable conditions.