As students become literate in music and competent in performance and creative expression, they gain confidence and enhance their overall intellectual abilities.
The Music Instrumental Orff Schulwerk music program begins in Kindergarten and continues through the 5th grade. This unique approach to music education involves all students in a daily study of speech, rhythm, instruments, singing, creative movement and dance, drama, and improvisation. The children play xylophones, glockenspiels, metallophones, soprano recorder, and unpitched percussion instruments.
They also learn to read music and understand basic theoretical concepts. Orff Schulwerk program continues through the 5th grade where, with an increasing emphasis on music theory and composition, students are introduced to modes, triads and asymmetrical meters.
Epitomizing the ideals of Carl Orff, the ensemble approach to music education engages children in the joys of a collaborative experience and provides a profound understanding of music as an academic discipline.
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The vocal music program uses the voice as the primary instrument through which children learn the concepts of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, tone color and musical expression. Vocal music also involves movement, singing games, playing tuned and unpitched percussion instruments, reading and writing notes as well as active listening to various styles and genres of music.
Students are given various opportunities in class to explore their voices and learn to sing with more accuracy. The vocal music program introduces students to a broad range of choral literature and strives to help students develop vocal techniques of correct posture and breathing necessary for good vocal production. Performance skills are stressed and practiced daily as students are given opportunities to perform in groups as well as individually.
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