The author declares no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
FUNDING
This research has been undertaken as part of the ArtsEqual project funded by the Academy of Finland / Strategic Research Council. Programme: Equality in Society, project no. 293199.
NOTES
1. In line with many Finnish education policy guidelines (e.g., FNBE, 2014), this study applies the term “significant support needs” to refer to students who have, for example, support needs related to cognitive and/or developmental disabilities.
2. One example is the internationally renowned punk band Pertti Kurikan Nimi-päivät who came into public view when participating as a Finnish representative
in the Eurovision song contest in 2015 (YLE Broadcasting Company, 2015).
All four members of this band have significant support needs and three of them studied at the Resonaari Music Centre, learning their instrumental skills with Figurenotes.
3. Resonaari Music Centre’s annual report shows that the centre collaborates with approximately 40 educational institutions per year. There were 55 workshops or seminars held at Resonaari and other educational institutions in 2017. At these events, 800 education professionals were familiarised with Figurenotes (Resonaari Music Centre, 2017). According to a survey on acces-sibility issues in the system of Basic Education in the Arts, Figurenotes was mentioned as one of the most common approaches for individualising music education practices (Juntunen & Kivijärvi, forthcoming).
4. In addition to alternative notation systems, various kinds of instrument mod-ifications, such as guitar ligature, are utilised extensively in music education before staff notation is introduced.
5. Vapaa säestys can be translated as “keyboard accompaniment”, “keyboard harmony”, “practical piano skills” or literally “free accompaniment”. As vapaa säestys is mainly a Finnish phenomenon, it does not have a precise translation in English (Rikandi, 2010).
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