Strategies for Revising Music Curricula for the Twenty-First Century

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of a need to update music curriculum to better prepare musicians for the careers and needs of the twenty-first century. There are increasing demands for today’s musicians to be entrepreneurially savvy, technologically adept, and cross-culturally responsive and inclusive. There is a concomitant expectation that today’s musicians be adept at traditional areas of expertise, including technical skills required for artistic expression in performance, and general musicianship and analysis. This chapter examines the challenges to curricular review and describes a way forward based upon best practices of organizational change and transforming institutional cultures.