The Curriculum

A Complete Programme for the Entire School Community

A curriculum designed for the Indian classroom — the leading music education programme in India, and among the finest in the world. Every child is born musical.

Nursery–Grade 12
The full journey
2 classes a week
Every child, every week
15–50 children
Built for diverse classrooms
The School Programme

One journey, page by page

Turn the pages — this is the walk every Sangeet4All child takes, from first sounds to a university-ready portfolio — through six books written by Saskia Rao-de Haas.

Sing.
Play.
Learn.
The pre-primary programme
Pre-Primary

First sounds

Music from the very first school day — voice, movement, and worksheets designed to stimulate hand-eye coordination, composing, and reader-readiness. Instruments are in small hands from the start.

Swartarang · Tala Chakra percussion
Dhwani book cover
Dhwani
Grade 1

Dhwani

The world of sound opens: singing, listening, playing together. Reading music begins here too — through Sangeet4All’s own colour notation, the first step on the path to sargam and staff notation.

Swartarang · small percussion
Vadya book cover
Vadya
Grade 2

Vadya

The rich heritage of India’s musical instruments — children meet them, hear them, and make an instrument of their own. The Bansi arrives: their first wind instrument, a bamboo voice matched to a young child’s breath.

Bansi · small percussion
Raga and Tala book cover
Raga & Tala
Grade 3

Raga & Tala

Melody and rhythm take root — raga through voice and Bansi, tala through konnakol and percussion. Understanding and joy grow together.

Bansi · small percussion
Desi book cover
Desi
Grade 4

Desi

India’s living musical landscape — and a new instrument in every pair of hands, with the whole class drumming together in circle.

Ukulele · drum circle
Shastra book coverDuniya book cover
Shastra & Duniya
Grade 5

The informed choice

A year of introduction to both worlds — Shastra and Duniya — so every child chooses their stream knowingly, with their teacher beside them: Shastra or Duniya? Vocal or instrument? Choir or Orchestra?

Ukulele · drum circle
Choir and orchestra
Choir & Orchestra — part of both streams
Middle School — Specialisation

Two streams

Shastra — Indian music specialisation, vocal or instrumental. Duniya — Western music specialisation, vocal or instrumental.

In both streams, students carry their music into standing Junior and Senior Choir & Orchestra.

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From first breath to artistic voice
High School

The university-ready portfolio

In both streams, high school students build a portfolio of their own performances, compositions, recordings, and research projects — integrated with their board, whether CBSE, ICSE, IB, or Cambridge, and built to prepare them for music programmes in higher education.

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Participation — every child, before middle school

Before middle school, every child has played the Swartarang, the Bansi, and the ukulele, kept rhythm on the Tala Chakra, and joined a drum circle. All thirty children in the class instead of a selected few on stage.

The Foundation Years

The base on which everything else stands

The first ten years are when a child’s musical foundation is laid. By the end of primary, every Sangeet4All child already carries all of this:

3 instruments
Swartarang · Bansi · Ukulele
10+ Ragas
Sung and played
6 Talas
Rhythm & konnakol
20+ instruments
Recognised by ear & sight
2 notations
Indian & Western
Singing & playing
Songs in many languages

A child who already carries all this has the perfect base to specialise — to represent the school in concerts, record their own music, and explore ragas, talas, devotional, regional, and world music in depth through the middle and high school years.

The Complete Framework

Not just a music class — a whole system

Most schools think of music as one period a week. Sangeet4All is built on five parts that work together — so music lives everywhere in the school — assembly, maths class, the annual stage Everything on this page is one of these five at work.

1

Music Enrichment

Assemblies, presentations, and performances — music as part of the life of the school.

2

Music in Education

Arts integration — music carried into maths, science, language, and the humanities, across every grade.

3

Music as Education

The core curriculum — music class, choir, and orchestra, Nursery to Grade 12.

4

Assessment

The Seven Pillars — teacher, peer, and self-assessment that tracks real musical growth, without exams.

5

Infrastructure

Music rooms, practice and recording spaces, IT, and ongoing teacher training — the foundation it all stands on.

Aligned with National Policy

Implement NEP 2020 with us

NEP 2020 mandates arts education from the earliest years — holistic, experiential, woven through the school day. But a policy doesn’t train a nursery teacher to sing confidently to her class, or supply the lesson plans and instruments that turn a mandate into a Monday morning. Sangeet4All is what has been missing: the complete system that makes the policy real, in your school, through your own teachers.

Arts Integration

We connect the music room to the classroom

Music doesn’t stay in the music room. Across every subject and every grade — from nursery right through the senior years — Sangeet4All gives teachers arts-integrated projects that carry music into maths, science, language, the arts, movement, and the calm of a settled classroom. Here are a few of the many ways it shows up in a Sangeet4All school.

“Teach children mathematics, philosophy and music — but most of all music, because the patterns in music are the key to all learning.”— Plato

Children exploring music and maths
Music & Maths

Rhythm is mathematics

Beats, fractions, patterns, and ratios — a bar of music is arithmetic a child can hear and clap. Tala becomes a way into number sense, and the maths lesson and the music lesson teach each other.

Children making their own instruments
Music & Craft

Making their own instruments

Children build a working instrument with their own hands — measuring, cutting, tuning, and understanding how sound is made. Craft, design, and physics arrive together, and the instrument they made goes home with them.

A Raga Mala painting
Music & Visual Art

The Raga Mala exhibition

Children paint the ragas they are learning — mood, season, and time of day rendered in colour. A centuries-old tradition where music, painting, and poetry meet, brought into the school as a whole-year project and exhibition.

Children moving to music
Music & Movement

Moving to the beat

Children keep the tala with their whole bodies — clapping cycles, stepping the pulse, feeling the shape of the rhythm before they name it. Coordination, balance, and a sense of structure grow through movement.

Children listening quietly to music
Music & Mindfulness

A moment of stillness

A raga to settle into, breath and attention gathered before the day’s work. Children learn to listen closely and grow calm — music as a way to steady the mind, not only fill the room.

Empowering Teachers

We M-power your teachers

We believe in empowering teachers — music teachers and classroom teachers alike, working together rather than in separate worlds. Sangeet4All doesn’t parachute a specialist into your school; it builds lasting musical capability in the team you already have, and stands beside them all year long. And because no two schools are alike, we help you adapt the programme to yours.

30 class lesson plans for every grade

A full year of structured, ready-to-teach lessons for every grade.

Festival & national day plans

Special lesson plans for festivals and national days — music woven into the school’s own calendar.

Worksheets & integration plans

Worksheets and music-integration plans connecting music to the wider curriculum.

Assembly & performance planners

An assembly planner and yearly performance planner — so every stage moment builds on real classroom learning.

School visits

Our facilitator meets your teachers every month — coaching, troubleshooting, growing alongside them. Our program head visits the school once every 3 months and the founder at least once a year. Weekly online meetings, feedback reports and: ALWAYS available to talk.

Onboarding training, every year

Every school year opens with fresh onboarding training, so new and returning teachers start strong.

“I was terrified of teaching music. Now it’s my favourite part of the day.”— Classroom teacher, partner school
Teacher training session
Teachers learning together
“It was enriching and engaging and gave an insight into teaching preschoolers and young classes strategically and simply.”— Tarika, The Shriram School
How We Teach

How every lesson plan is built

Music class is not just singing. It is instruments, rhythm, theory, listening, movement, and mindfulness — woven together and planned to the last minute. Sangeet4All comes with over 300 ready-to-teach lesson plans across the grades — each one adaptable to your school’s needs. Every lesson follows the same shape, and every concept returns at increasing complexity year after year — so a teacher who has never taught music before can still teach it well from day one.

Decades of research link early music education to stronger memory, language, and mathematical thinking — and the key learning window opens before age ten. Every week matters. Sangeet4All is built for exactly that window, and for the whole life beyond it.

The Instruments

Designed for small hands, built to teach

Patented · Sangeet4All IP

Swartarang

Tuned metal keys that lift out so the instrument itself teaches, mallets sized for a child’s hands — and an entire class of thirty playing together from day one. In classrooms from India to the US and Europe.

Tala Chakra

The rhythm companion — small percussion in full class sets, building tala, konnakol, and rhythmic memory from the very first year.

Bansi

The first wind instrument — a simple bamboo voice matched to a young child’s breath, teaching breath control, pitch, and melodic expression, and carrying the cultural resonance of the bansuri.

Ukulele

The bridge to harmony and song — chords, strumming, and accompaniment, opening the door to the world’s popular music while reading tabs joins the music-literacy path.

“The Swartarang is a very unique instrument — it helps our students learn different ragas and even motivates them to compose their own music.”— Neha Shukhija, KG Mentor, Gyaananda School
Young Artists

Performing, all year round

Children perform throughout the year — and performing becomes sharing without pressure, a learning outcome of the process itself. Assembly, baithaks, festivals: all great moments for your young artists to shine.

Baithak
Once per term

Informal sharing in the classical tradition — parents welcome, no costumes, no pressure. The learning itself is the show.

Assembly
Monthly

Music as part of the school day, not separate from it — rotating classes and choir, so music stays living, not occasional.

Concerts
Twice a year

Junior and Senior Choir & Orchestra make the school’s artistic identity visible — the visiting card of your school.

Annual Showcase
Once a year

The flowering of a full year’s work — not a three-week scramble. Festivals and national days join the calendar all year.

Assessment as Learning Support

The Seven Pillars

In a government school in Delhi, a young girl struggled to match pitch during a singing exercise. By conventional standards, she was failing. But she was completely absorbed in the music, moving naturally to the rhythm — and quietly guiding a classmate who seemed lost. She understood music deeply. She simply needed more time with her voice.

That observation is why Sangeet4All’s Seven Pillars — Voice, Rhythm, Listening, Instrumental, Music Literacy, Conceptual understanding, and Behavioural/social-emotional development — translate the same holistic judgment a guru has always used into a framework any classroom teacher can apply, growing directly out of the act of teaching itself.

Growth is documented through structured observation, portfolios of recordings and creative work, and peer and self-assessment — building a picture of each child’s musical journey that a single test could never capture.

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Voice
2
Rhythm
3
Listening
4
Instrumental
5
Music Literacy
6
Conceptual
7
Behaviour & Social
Assessment in Practice

Projects, performances, classwork

The Seven Pillars aren’t a philosophy on paper — they’re already built into a working assessment sheet for every unit, running every term. Each child is looked at three ways, so no single moment decides the picture.

One

Project Work

Hands-on projects that reach beyond the music room — building instruments, mapping India’s folk music, painting the mood of a raga, interviewing grandparents for a song.

Two

Performance

Taking part in inter-class and inter-school performances, vocal and instrumental — the child’s growing confidence on a stage, recorded as it happens.

Three

Class Assessment

Everyday learning measured against clear Learning Outcome rubrics — the steady week-to-week growth the Seven Pillars are built to track.

Real projects from a single year include a folk-music map of India, raga-listening reflections connecting mood to melody, and a build-your-own-instrument sequence through the four families of Indian instruments. Every one is designed, written, and ready for the teacher — not left for them to invent.

Schools record it their own way — as marks, grades, or remarks, following the school’s own rules. Sangeet4All fits your report card; you don’t rebuild it for us.

In the Classroom

What it looks like

Young children in class

Young children, first classes

Pre-primary

Primary classroom

A primary classroom in session

The everyday rhythm

Teacher training

Teacher training in progress

Educator certification

Swartarang performance

Performing on the Swartarang

Instruments in action

How It Begins

From first hello to full music programme

We never arrive with a fixed package. We begin by understanding your school — then build the right programme around it.

1

Visit & diagnose

We visit your school to observe and understand your infrastructure, your teachers, and your children.

2

Consult & tailor

Together we choose the Sangeet4All modules that best fit your school — nothing more, nothing less.

3

Onboard your teachers

An onboarding workshop launches the programme, with your own teachers trained to deliver it.

4

Hand-holding, always

Ongoing workshops — at our centre, at your school, and online — plus weekly then monthly assessment, and monthly facilitator visits. We never leave you to it.

Saraswati, goddess of music
Rethinking Music Education

Some of your questions, answered

Music isn’t really for everyone — only the children with natural talent.

Every child who breathes has rhythm; every child who speaks already carries melody. I don’t hand music to a chosen few — I place it in all of them at birth. Thirty children, thirty Swartarangs, one trained teacher, every one of them playing. Watch.

Classical music is far too difficult for young children.

To read your Shakespeare, a child first traces the letter A. To sing my raga, a child first simply listens, and plays. The difficulty you imagine belongs to the master’s stage — not the child’s first joyful step. Children learn music. The styles come later.

But young children only want fun — they won’t sit for classical music.

Children love chocolate too — yet you would never feed them only chocolate. My classes overflow with joy, but joy is the doorway, not the destination. This is music education, not entertainment. The delight is how the learning gets in.

Music is extra — lovely to have, but not essential to a real education.

Not extra. Essential. I live inside your mathematics, your languages, your memory, your calm. I help build the very brain a child will think with. Give me the whole school day — not the minutes left over.

We already have musicians on staff — surely any musician can teach music.

A gifted musician is not yet a gifted teacher. Give your teachers a curriculum they can hold and adapt, training that meets the real classroom, and one another to learn beside — and I will fill every room in your school with music.

Beyond the School Programme

Ways to work with us

It has always been our mission to keep Sangeet4All affordable — at the best quality possible. Programmes are tailored to your school’s size, infrastructure, and teachers, and the first conversation is always free. Tell us about your school, and we’ll find the right way in.

The School Programme

The complete curriculum — books, instruments, teacher training, certification, and the Seven Pillars assessment — delivered through your own staff, Nursery to Grade 12.

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Educator Certification Course

For individual teachers and musicians: train in the Sangeet4All methodology and become a certified educator — with or without a school partnership.

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IB & University

Indian music modules for the IB curriculum and higher education — bringing the same rigour to international and university programmes.

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Everything on this page, in a form you can share with your management, your teachers, or your board.

The School Programme

The complete curriculum, Nursery to Grade 12 — for principals, school owners, and management.

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Early Years

Running a preschool or pre-primary wing? The programme for the youngest musicians, from the very first school day.

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The Foundation & CSR

Our outreach work and how CSR partners can bring music to children who would otherwise never have it.

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