FRHSD Music Department Philosophy

We believe our curriculum should provide quality experiences that are musically meaningful to the education of all our students. It should help them discover, understand, and enjoy music as an art form, an intellectual endeavor, a medium of self-expression, and a means of social growth.

Music is considered basic to the total educational program. To each new generation this portion of our heritage is a source of inspiration, enjoyment, and knowledge that helps to shape a way of life. Our music curriculum enriches and maintains this life and draws on our nation and the world for it’s ever-expanding course content taking the student beyond the realm of the ordinary, everyday experience.

Music is an art that expresses emotion, indicates mood, and helps students to respond to their environment. It develops the students’ character through its emphasis on responsibility, self-discipline, leadership, concentration, and respect for and awareness of the contributions of others. Music contains technical, psychological, artistic, and academic concepts. It is an integral part of life and therefore should be studied to further enrich the lives of our students.

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm, harmony, and melody find their way into the inward places of our soul on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is educated graceful.” — Plato

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