Differentiation is a key concept in the Cypriot music curriculum, last revised in 2010. This paper aims to investigate teachers’ interpretation and implementation of differentiation in their music classrooms. Interviews with Cypriot classroom music teachers and focus groups with their students took place within the context of a larger research project that investigated how elements of the Cypriot music curriculum were interpreted and applied by teachers and how this pedagogy in turn influenced students’ motivation. Interviews were carried out with eight music teachers. Differentiation, as understood and implemented by these Cypriot music teachers, differed in fundamental ways to differentiation as conceptualised in academic literature concerned with this concept. These findings may serve as a point of reflection for future professional development in Cyprus relating to differentiation and its implementation.

差异化是塞浦路斯音乐课程的一个关键概念，最后一次修订于 2010 年。本文旨在调查教师在音乐课堂上对差异化的解释和实施。对塞浦路斯课堂音乐教师和学生焦点小组的采访是在一个更大的研究项目的背景下进行的，该项目调查了教师如何解释和应用塞浦路斯音乐课程的要素，以及这种教学法反过来如何影响学生的动机。对八位音乐老师进行了采访。这些塞浦路斯音乐教师所理解和实施的差异化，与有关这一概念的学术文献中概念化的差异化有着根本的不同。这些发现可以作为塞浦路斯未来与差异化及其实施相关的专业发展的反思点。