Music Education

The ALHCS Music Department is a vibrant, creative, expressive space. We seek to encourage and maintain excited, engaged learners through music making and the study of the discipline in general.

The ALHCS Music Department is home to such formidable student ensembles as:

• • CONCERT CHOIR

  • CONCERT BAND

  • STEEL ORCHESTRA

  • JAZZ ENSEMBLE

  • RECORDER ENSEMBLE

At the Music Department, we encourage students from as low as primary level, to become involved in any one or more of the performing ensembles. Through exposure to music study and performance students can eventually student

Careers in music are as follows:-
Accompanist
Arranger/Composer
Conductor/Band Leader
Instrument Repair Technician/Piano Tuner
Music Educator
Music Therapist
Disc Jockey
Performer
Cultural Officer
Music Journalist
Producer of programmes and records

In offering the CSEC Music syllabus, the Caribbean Examinations Council is providing opportunities for the development of a practical knowledge of music and of the skills of analysis that can form the basis for further studies in teaching, performing, conducting, composing and arranging, the music business and other music-related fields. The syllabus is rooted in Caribbean musical expressions, as well as in the musical expressions of other cultures. Further, the syllabus enables regional peoples to participate in the continuing development of Caribbean musical culture and to contribute to, and draw from, the pool of knowledge that constitutes world music.

The Music syllabus focuses on three major topics or profile dimensions namely:

• Listening and Appraising (LIAP)

• Performing (PERF)

• Composing (COMP)