Music Education K-5

Welcome to Barton Creek Elementary Music!

Our music curriculum includes active music-making experiences using the Orff process as well as the Kodály philosophy. Just as children learn to hear and speak a language before reading and writing it, we can assume the same of music. This approach gives children the opportunity to interact with and make music in multiple forms before formally learning to read and write it. Orff and Kodály use songs, poems, rhymes, dances, and games as a form of education. Instead of learning through rote memorization, students develop skills through active music making. 

Students at Barton Creek learn about the elements of music (rhythm, melody, harmony, form and expressive qualities) through imitation and exploration. These hands-on experiences eventually lead to improvisation and music literacy (reading and writing music). 

Below you will find the elements that we target. These elements are cumulative across the grade levels as appropriate to the development of the child.

• Steady beat

• Singing games

• Playing pitched and unpitched percussion

• Movement and dance

• Rhythm elements

• Melodic elements

• Music writing

• Music reading

• Listening

• Creating

• Performing

• Theater Arts

Eanes ISD Music Year at a Glance

BCE Music Classroom Library