Vaishnav Bhandarkar
Co-founder
COMPLETE SCHOOL MUSIC CURRICULUM
Music education, structured for every grade.
Clavicord is a progressive music curriculum for schools that takes students from their first musical experiences to becoming confident listeners, readers, creators and performers.
10 grades
Standard 1 to 10
Staff notation
Real music reading
Complete kit
Books, worksheets, audio
Trained teachers
Training and support
WHY CLAVICORD
Most schools have a music period. Few have a music curriculum.
Music is more than learning songs. It is rhythm, melody, harmony, expression, culture and creativity — and students deserve to learn it with the same structure as any other subject.
01
A period, not a programme
Many schools timetable a music period every week, but without a curriculum it often becomes singing practice for the next event.
02
No progression
Without a year-on-year plan, Grade 7 can look much like Grade 3. Students rarely learn to read staff notation at all.
03
Teachers on their own
Music teachers are left to build lessons from scratch, with no books, materials or way to assess learning.
THE CURRICULUM
10 grades. One musical journey.
From discovering the beat in the early years to composition, songwriting, music technology and independent projects in higher grades, every book builds on the one before.
GRADES 1 – 2
Discovering Music
Children explore sound, find the beat, sing together and meet the instruments of the orchestra, building the listening habits every later grade relies on.
Learn more GRADES 3 – 4Building Musical Foundations
Students begin reading music properly: notes and rests on the staff, so that what they hear and what they see on the page start to connect.
Learn more GRADES 5 – 10Creating & Understanding
The programme moves from reading to making and thinking: students compose, write songs, work with music technology and analyse music, finishing with independent musical projects.
Learn moreOUR APPROACH
Experience. Understand. Explain. Apply. Create.
A curriculum designed not just to teach music, but to help students understand, experience and create it.
- 01
Experience
Students listen, sing, move and play before they name anything.
- 02
Understand
Each experience is connected to the concept behind it.
- 03
Explain
Students learn the vocabulary to talk and write about music.
- 04
Apply
Concepts are practised in real musical activities and worksheets.
- 05
Create
Every stage ends in students making music of their own.
READING MUSIC
Every student learns to read the staff.
Many school music classes skip notation entirely. Clavicord teaches it step by step, so the music on the page finally makes sense. Try it: play a key and see where it lives on the staff.
Play a key below and watch it appear on the staff.
Go on, play it. Tap the keys or use A to ; on your keyboard.
MORE THAN BOOKS
A complete music programme for your school.
Clavicord is an institutional education programme, not simply a set of music books.
- BooksTen graded books, one for each standard, each building on the year before.
- WorksheetsPractice pages that turn each lesson's concept into hands-on work.
- AudioListening tracks and examples to use in the classroom.
- AssessmentA framework to track what students understand, grade by grade.
- Teacher trainingTraining for your music staff to teach the curriculum with confidence.
- Programme supportOngoing help for your school as the programme runs.
THE FOUNDERS
Written by people who teach.
Clavicord is created by Vaishnav Bhandarkar and Akash Mistry, founders of Maestro Music Institute, where they have taught music since 2018.
Akash Mistry
Co-founder
Bring Clavicord to your school.
We will present the curriculum, books, assessment framework and implementation model to your team.