How do some schools get music so right while others get it so wrong? Janet Mills, a former HMI and teacher, draws on work in more than 800 schools and published research as she seeks to help schools improve their practice - no matter how good it is already. Successful teaching, she argues, is creative, uplifting, enabling, and, above all, rooted in music.

Introduction
All change?
Teaching music musically
Creating, interpreting, and responding to music
Making music
Teaching instruments musically
How not to teach music musically
The musical student
The musical school
What music?
Making progress in music
The other eighteen hours
Why is music so boring?
Learning from research