General Music

In music class we:

Sing, Say, Dance, and Play 

in a tuneful, beat-ful, artful way!

 

Music provides a powerful means of engaging students in learning and improving their achievement.

Fundamental in a student's overall social, emotional, and cognitive development, music enhances reasoning, inspires creativity, and encourages critical thinking, self-discipline, problem-solving, decision-making, cooperation, and imagination. Music enables students to learn about themselves, other people, and humanity in general.

 

Goals for the children:

Accurate rhythmic skills + Accurate singing skills + Sensitivity to the expressive qualities in music

 

The curriculum is based on early childhood research 

related to the development of:

Music intelligence + Singing skills + Sensitivity to the beat and beat groups + Expressive movement + Musical memory + Preferences + Neurological connections

 

Curriculum is based on the Kodály method, Orff method, and the John Feierabend First Steps in Music/Conversational Solfege. Curriculum also engages the modern band concept through the Music Will program.  

 

The Kodály Concept

Is a philosophy of education and a concept of teaching.

Is a comprehensive program to train basic musical skills and teach the reading and writing of music.

Is an integration of many of the best ideas, techniques, and approaches to music education.

Is an experience-based approach to teaching.

 

The Concept focuses on:

Singing, Solfege, Folk Music, Music and Quality, Development of the Complete Musician, Sequencing