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The Continuum Approach to Music: Foundations: A Pedagogical Framework for Musical Learning (The Continuum Music Framework™) (3 January 2026) by Sarnia de la Mare (Author) The Continuum Approach to Music — Foundations by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Foundations is the opening volume of The Continuum Music Framework™, introducing The Continuum Approach—a humane, flexible pathway into musical learning designed for all ages and abilities. Rather than beginning with technique, targets, or assessment, this book focuses on the conditions that make learning possible: emotional safety, environment, pacing, and permission. It recognises that learners do not arrive as blank slates, but as whole people—often carrying previous experiences of pressure, disruption, or exclusion—and offers a way forward that restores confidence and curiosity. Foundations reframes music education as a continuum rather than a ladder. Progress is not measured by speed or comparison, but by clarity, comfort, and sustained engag...

Foreword — How to Use This Book The Continuum Approach is not a method. It does not replace existing teaching traditions, schools, or technical systems, nor does it ask the learner to abandon repertoire, notation, or discipline. Instead, it operates alongside chosen methods, offering a pedagogical framework through which those methods may be used more humanely, more intelligently, and with greater long-term continuity. Continuum is concerned not with what is taught, but with how learning is allowed to take place . It asks different questions. Not How quickly can this be achieved? But What conditions allow this to endure? Not What should the student produce? But What must be present for learning to remain alive? A Pedagogy, Not a Prescription Continuum is a pedagogy rather than a programme. It does not prescribe a fixed sequence of exercises, graded outcomes, or externally defined goals. Teachers and learners may work with any repertoire, tradition, or technical system they...