PSI Music Learning

Goals

MN Arts Standards

PSI Music Curriculum and projects are rooted in the Minnesota Arts Standards, which are organized into 4 strands:

Create = The process of generating original art, including conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.
Perform = The process of realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.
Respond = The process of analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating how the arts convey meaning.
Connect = The process of relating artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.

PSI Music Scope & Sequence

Music Development Mission & Philosophy

Music is not an inherited trait so much as it is a practiced behavior. Everyone is a musician in the same way that everyone is a language or math learner.

Music is its own discipline: a basic subject with unique ways to be intelligent and literate.

Literate musicians can read music, speak music (improvise), write music (compose), and understand music (audiate).

Creativity is learned by enabling and encouraging students to make choices.

Music is the language of emotion, which is inseparable from everything we are and do. It expresses feelings when words do not suffice and extends the range of our expressions of emotions.

Music is not a culturally-neutral universal language. Music offers a nuanced expression of the innermost insights of how cultures make sense of the world around them.