Music Manifesto
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The Music Manifesto is a government-supported campaign
to improve young people's music education
in England based on an agreed strategy
and set of priorities. It promotes a 'music for all' agenda and wishes to see more musical opportunities for more young people.
(DCMS
)) and a wide range of music organisations, musicians, teachers, composers, the music industry, broadcasting, teacher and musicians' unions, arts and education charities and Trusts.
It was developed through three seminar
s led by David Miliband
MP
, the School Standards Minister. An internet discussion board was set up to allow ongoing discussion and input was sought from the Music Advanced Skills Teachers network and the wider National Music Education Forum. While working closely with the DCSF and DCMS, the Music Manifesto remains independent of Government.
The Music Manifesto offers a strategic direction for the future of music education and a common agenda for joint action. It has published two reports, the second of which, 'Making Every Child's Music Matter', set out over 50 recommendations for improving music education.
The campaign's Five Key Aims are:
, which gives free instrumental tuition to young children in some of the country's most deprived areas.
In November 2007, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls
, recognised the contribution of the Music Manifesto when he announced a £332 million funding package for music education.
The Music Manifesto's £40 million National Singing Programme, Sing Up
, was launched in November 2007 and aims to put singing at the heart of every primary school.
The Wider Opportunities programme aims to give all Key Stage 2 pupils the chance to play an instrument.
From 2005-08, three Music Manifesto Pathfinder organisations developed a range of projects designed to offer young people access to inspiring, quality music provision.
For 2008-09 five partnership programmes have been funded to provide music activities in line with the Manifesto's aims.
Youth Music, the UK charity which provides music making opportunities for young people aged 0–18 with least opportunity is a Music Manifesto signatory
Advertising campaign
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to improve young people's music education
Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
in England based on an agreed strategy
Strategy
Strategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked...
and set of priorities. It promotes a 'music for all' agenda and wishes to see more musical opportunities for more young people.
History
The Music Manifesto came about as a result of a collaboration between two government departments (the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), now DCSF, and the Department for Culture, Media and SportDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, such as broadcasting and internet....
(DCMS
DCMS
DCMS as an acronym may refer to:*Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England*Deccan College of Medical Sciences, a medical college in Hyderabad, India...
)) and a wide range of music organisations, musicians, teachers, composers, the music industry, broadcasting, teacher and musicians' unions, arts and education charities and Trusts.
It was developed through three seminar
Seminar
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s led by David Miliband
David Miliband
David Wright Miliband is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband...
MP
Member of Parliament
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, the School Standards Minister. An internet discussion board was set up to allow ongoing discussion and input was sought from the Music Advanced Skills Teachers network and the wider National Music Education Forum. While working closely with the DCSF and DCMS, the Music Manifesto remains independent of Government.
The Music Manifesto offers a strategic direction for the future of music education and a common agenda for joint action. It has published two reports, the second of which, 'Making Every Child's Music Matter', set out over 50 recommendations for improving music education.
Aims
The purpose of the Music Manifesto is:- to act as a statement of common intent that helps align currently disparate activity.
- to set out a shared agenda for future planning across the sector.
- to make it easier for more organisations and individuals to see how they can contribute to music education.
- to guide Government's own commitment to music education.
- to call on the wider community, including the public, private and community sectors, to join in enriching the lives of schoolchildren.
The campaign's Five Key Aims are:
- to provide every young person with first access to a range of music experiences
- to provide more opportunities for young people to deepen and broaden their musical interests and skills
- to identify and nurture our most talented young musicians
- to develop a world-class workforce in music education
- to improve the support structures for young people's music making.
Campaigns
The latest project supported by the Music Manifesto is In Harmony, a programme inspired by Venezuela's El SistemaEl Sistema
El Sistema is a publicly financed voluntary sector music education program in Venezuela, originally called Social Action for Music. Its official name is Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, , and sometimes translated to English as...
, which gives free instrumental tuition to young children in some of the country's most deprived areas.
In November 2007, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls
Ed Balls
Edward Michael Balls, known as Ed Balls, is a British Labour politician, who has been a Member of Parliament since 2005, currently for Morley and Outwood, and is the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer....
, recognised the contribution of the Music Manifesto when he announced a £332 million funding package for music education.
The Music Manifesto's £40 million National Singing Programme, Sing Up
Sing Up
Sing Up is a UK Government funded national singing programme which aims to ensure that all primary school-aged children are able to access high-quality singing activities every day and that, over time, all primary schools should become 'singing schools'...
, was launched in November 2007 and aims to put singing at the heart of every primary school.
The Wider Opportunities programme aims to give all Key Stage 2 pupils the chance to play an instrument.
From 2005-08, three Music Manifesto Pathfinder organisations developed a range of projects designed to offer young people access to inspiring, quality music provision.
For 2008-09 five partnership programmes have been funded to provide music activities in line with the Manifesto's aims.
External links
Youth Music, the UK charity which provides music making opportunities for young people aged 0–18 with least opportunity is a Music Manifesto signatory