The Antonine Maronite Order founded the Antonine School of Music (ASM).

The Antonine Maronite Order founded the Antonine University (UA), to which the ASM is part of, and the Higher Institute of Music (HIM) at UA was created to teach music and musicology.

HIM welcomes its first students, registered to gain a Bachelor’s degree in music, approved by the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE).

UA signed an academic cooperation agreement with the University of Paris-Sorbonne (IV), which paves the way for the development of the musicological research at HIM.

UA founded the Centre for Research on Musical Traditions (CRTM). One of the main assignments of the CRTM is the publication of the annual musicological journal Revue des traditions musicales (RTM), in collaboration with the UFR of Music and Musicology of Paris-Sorbonne University. RTM became an international reference journal in the field of monodic modal traditions.

The MEHE granted HIM approval to teach a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Musicology (over a minimum of 3 years, 90 credits,) with five concentrations, and a Teaching Diploma in Music and Musicology (1 year, 22 credits.) As well as, approval to teach Master 1 in Music and Musicology (maîtrise, 1 year, 24 credits,) with five concentrations, and a Master 2 in Music and Musicology (DEA, 1 year, 12 credits.)

HIM established a second undergraduate teaching unit on the Mejdlaya–Zgharta Campus.

HIM changed its name to be officially known as the Faculty of Music and Musicology (FMM).

The Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education granted the FMM the right to deliver a sixth Bachelor and Master's degree concentration, called Music Therapy. The UA established its Centre for Early Music (CEM) within the FMM and began to teach a sub-concentration in Baroque music, inherent to the concentration in European Art Music.

The FMM became the leading higher education institute for music and musicology in Lebanon, in terms of student numbers.

The European Agency Music Quality Enhancement (MusiQuE) has officially issued its programmatic accreditation to the FMM, which enabled it to become the first academic musical institution to be accredited in the Arab world.