ABSTRACT
On 24 April 1998 The Times Educational Supplement carried the headline ‘Primary music in decline’. A ‘horrifying’ survey had uncovered that one in five primary schools in England and Wales were cutting down on music, and some were dropping the subject altogether. There was no doubt about the culprit: it was the government's insistence that schools concentrate on the teaching of numeracy and literacy. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) mounted a campaign to save music in schools entitled Music for the Millennium.
