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welcome our VisionSangeet4All brings a brand new music education program to Indian schools that instills a lifelong foundation and love for Classical Indian music. Sangeet4All is based on the philosophy that all children are musical and deserve to engage in a fun way with their cultural heritage. The Sangeet4All music curriculum is designed to best suit the Indiansensibilities and the realities of Indian classrooms.

“A change is happening all around us. India is rediscovering its cultureto bridge the modern day requirements with its rich heritage. Oldclothes are being tossed out of the cupboard and new designs that havea link to its past, are being taken in with glee. Classical Indian musichas a significant role to play especially in these changing times andSangeet4All gives the children an easy access to it from early childhoodand from the first day a child enters school. Adapt Sangeet4All in yourcurriculum and see your child sing, play, learn.”

Shubhendra and Saskia Rao

About usSangeet4All serves schools and families throughout India by providing music curriculum grounded in Indian classical music with a global outlook. Sangeet4All is developed for Nursery upto 5th grade. The day a child starts school, he/she should experience the joy of music in their lives.The company was founded by world renowned Indian classical artists Pt. Shubhendra and Vidushi Saskia Rao. Pt. Shubhendra Rao is one of India’s leading artists today. He is a disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar from whom he learned in the true Guru Shishya Parampara. Vidushi Saskia Rao is a Dutch cellist whose schooling started at a young age with Western classical music and studied Indian classical music with Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. Today she is established as a master of Indian music on the cello. Their unique combined knowledge in music training and music education is how Sangeet4All was born, the ideal way to teach the age-old Indian music concepts through internationally tested music pedagogy to children.They see an important role for Indian music education in today’s world to bridge tradition with modern methods. Indian music concepts of rhythm and melody are among the highest developed music systems in the world and should be shared with all children and not kept to only a few. Their mission through Sangeet4All (S4A ) is to promote India’s classical music in a manner that meets the developmental needs of children and promotes the joy that comes with having music in your life.and knowledge about their cultural heritage. In Sangeet4All no child is left behind and all children become creators.

why s4AIndia’s children belong to one of the richest cultural heritages of the world. Our classical arts provide a bridge from the past to the present, shows us the best that our culture has created and provides a strong foundation for identity. Indian music can also boast of having perhaps the most complex system of rhythm, melody and improvisation available today.

India’s classical arts have been transmitted since time immemorial through the invaluable and beautiful tradition of the guru-shishya parampara, a way of learning that is complete in itself. However, this tradition serves only a small part of India’s society, and focuses on strict technical, professional training in a manner too mature for young children. It is a system that cannot be implemented into a classroom scenario, in which we want to serve all children. With limited access to good music education from their early years, too many young children today have no connection with their musical heritage. They mostly turn to popular music that have attractive resources available but can be unsuitable for their age.

We HAVE to make our classical music available to all. If not, the next generation will not understand their musical heritage. Not because it is not relevant today but because they would not have had enough encounters with it in their childhood. New educational systems, teaching methods and resources are required that serve the right of every child of India to learn about and participate in their own culture and ensure that Indian music will continue to grow as an art form. When we start in early childhood to teach the foundation of Indian music, children will either be ready to take on the full, demanding training required in the classical arts through the guru shishya parampara, choose another musical style or will have acquired the foundation to enjoy (classical) music the rest of their lives. We need both Taansens AND Kaansens. And we need all children to love music. Let’s join hands to make this change!

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leArning outcomesAll too often the learning outcome of a music program is equated with the number of songs children learn during the year. Typically, the talented children sing songs at special functions and this is considered as the measure of success of music classes. This puts pressure on teachers to ‘keep up the school’s name’ and is not conductive for the morale in the classroom. The Sangeet4All curriculum is designed so that learning happens in holistic way to create a solid all-round music foundation in a child. For the school it is essential to measure the learning outcomes of the music program in a wider context. Music education is a process of discovery and adventure of the teacher and children together. The background scores for the songs are attractive for public performances by the children and the instrumental pieces in the second half of the year are fun for the performing children and their audience. Performance by all the children is very important in the Sangeet4All curriculum to instill confidence and should be encouraged throughout the year, but should be conducted in the spirit of sharing and never put undue pressure on child or teacher.

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PhilosoPhy•  All living beings are musical•  Music is the bi• rthright of every child•  All children in India have a birthright to their rich musical heritage. •  Quality music education benefits all children. Talented or not, it instills life-skills that no other subject can teach•  Music education needs to be fun and age appropriate. •  Only when children are engaged do they learn for life.•  Parents play an essential role in the education of a child•  Music teachers need to be empowered with resources and training•  Music foundation is best taught in a holistic manner; movement, pictures, literacy, counting, sound, song, listening, environment and instruments are the tools

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