K-12 Music Education Overview

Overview of K-12 Music Education

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Philosophy/Mission

Music education draws upon personal feelings and experience as well as on logical and intellectual thought and should be an integral part of every child’s total education. Music aptitude is an intelligence that is unique to the human race and all children possess this aptitude. Cultivating this music aptitude in our students also cultivates their humanity.

Why Music?

-Music is worth knowing.

-Music is one of the most important manifestations of our cultural heritage. Children need to know about Beethoven and Louis Armstrong as well as about Newton and Einstein.

-Music is a potential in every individual that, like all potential, should be developed to its fullest.

-Music provides an outlet for creativity, self-expression, and individual uniqueness. It enables us to express our noblest thoughts and feelings.

-Music teaches students about unique aspects of their relationships with other human beings and with the world around them, in their own and other cultures.

-Music opens avenues of success for students who may have problems in other areas of the curriculum and opens approaches to learning that can be applied in other contexts.

-Studying music increases the satisfaction students derive from music by sharpening sensitivity, raising their level of appreciation, and expanding their musical horizons.

-Music is one of the most powerful and profound symbol systems that exists.

-Music helps students learn a significant lesson—that not all aspects of life are quantifiable.

-Music exalts the human spirit.

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Objectives

As a result of experiencing the RLRS Music Curriculum, students will-

PERFORM

-sing and perform a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

INTERPRET

-read and notate music.

CREATE

-improvise and compose music within specified guidelines.

RESPOND

-respond to music aesthetically, intellectually and emotionally.

CONNECT

-identify diverse musical styles and genres.

-identify the role music has played and continues to play in their own lives, as well as mankind.

-make aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis.

-become life-long learners and lovers of music as either consumers, performers, creators or

teachers.