Music Department

Music is an integral part of humankind.  No known culture is without some aspect of 

artistic experience.  Music is an important key to understanding our own cultural history and 

provides an understanding of other cultures.  It is an indispensable tool to one who seeks an 

understanding of the past, the present, and the future.  Music can provide the universal  

communication to overcome the barriers of language, politics, and geography. 

Music Education cultivates the whole child, gradually building many kinds of literacy 

while developing intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity into unique forms of expression 

and communication.  There is ample evidence that the arts help students develop the attitudes, 

characteristics, and intellectual skills required to participate effectively in today’s society and 

economy.  Music Education teaches self-discipline, reinforces self-esteem, and fosters the 

thinking skills creativity so valued in the workplace. 

 From kindergarten through grade twelve, Music Education develops mental discipline 

through a spiraling sequence of learning experiences.  It also nurtures an appreciation of music’s 

aesthetic qualities.  At every level, the skills acquired become the means for the expression of 

music.  The realization of the goals, skill mastery, and artistic expression is the commitment of 

the Music Educators of Bernards Township.