What about overall music curriculum reformhow will ISIMs efforts differ from conventional reform approaches?
ISIM embraces efforts to diversify musical study and include improvisation in a greater capacity for all music students. There has been no dearth of appeals along these lines in National Association of Schools of Music, Music Educators National Conference, International Music Council, and other music learning circles. However, few would disagree that, overall, progress has been minimal. At best, improvising and composing are ancillary aspects of the curriculum, available as one or two term introductory courses, or electives. Many music majors still graduate with no experience in these basic processes. ISIM advocates wholesale reform, from the core curriculum on up, so that todays music students graduate with extensive experiences in improvisation, composition, and diverse musics; basic requisites for musicianship in our times.
