This article focuses on finding new bases for Finnish school music education. It outlines current music education and
points out difficulties that are caused by rapid changes in music culture. Due to these changes, Finnish music
curriculum must find new starting points.
We explore the main ideas about music education and compare them to each other through the historical
development. The conclusions suggest that music education today should be built on music making and listening. It
can no longer be based on traditional frames because it is not familiar to children of today. Music education should be
based on research and new ways of teaching and learning musical skills and knowledge should guide its practice
The aim of research should exploring to what extent and strength the cultural enculturation, which
musical taste, musical worldview and musical self-concept. The musical surroundings of society in
Finland today are important targets of research, because they should form the bases for building music
education goals for the future.
There is ample information available about the history of Finnish music education today. There we
could and should find the mistakes and misjudgments and learn from them. Many researchers have
described the teaching of music education up to the 1980s. The attitudes of teachers towards different
music styles and pupils with a musical hobby have been researched and the results show many factors
ject in everyday school work. If we wanted to lift the