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ABSTRACT

The paper investigated the quality and accessibility of primary school music education. Music education is an excellent means of enhancing pupils’ compositional and performance skills, which also has a direct impact on their listening abilities in classes. Strategically, music education provides opportunities for pupils to develop creative skills and the initiative for learning processes. The study discovered that primary school music education prompts the need to cope with art and builds pupils’ understanding of beauty in art. Thus, the goals of teaching music in primary school are to motivate multiple pupils' development, establish a creative attitude, develop musicality, prompt talent and skill, and acquire musical knowledge. The findings of the study revealed that there is a lack of consistent quality in music education and a lack of consistency in the provision of music education. For some students, no formal music education is provided; for others, music education is fragmentary, delivered non-continuously and lacking the sequential development that is so critical for a solid grounding in music. One of the recommendations made in the paper was that it is very essential and pertinent that governments address equity and accessibility issues, such as in the provision of music education, with schools in lower income socio-economic areas.

KEYWORDS: Primary school, Music education, Quality and Accessibility