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Music Mark column: A Common Approach for a new era

Bridget Whyte, chief executive of Music Mark, gives an insight into this curriculum for vocal and instrumental teaching and how collaboration sits at the heart of its digitisation.
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A Common Approach is an instrumental and vocal curriculum resource, first published in 2002. Following consultation with Music Mark's membership, it was digitised and given a radical makeover in 2022. A live resource, it has since been updated in keeping with music education best practice.

In 2002 a partnership of the Federation of Music Services and the National Association of Music Educators (who merged 11 years later to become Music Mark) together with the Royal College of Music produced a new publication called A Common Approach – ‘a ground-breaking initiative, providing for the first time an instrumental/vocal curriculum drawn together at a national level.’

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