Breaking the Silence

Goals of the General Music Program

Singing/Playing - To explore and develop musical skills, using a wide variety of tradtional and contemporary music. 

LIstening - To develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis of music. 

Creating - To learn how music is organized through improvising, arranging and composing for personal musical experience. 

Valuing - To make students aware of the implications of music in our society with respect to music careers; its avocational and leisure uses; and to grow in the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of usic as a source of personal fulfillment. 

Specific outcomes

Modules concentrate on performances, elements/structure and perspective. 

Performance concentration in areas not included in the choral or instrumental program (e.g. guitar, ukulele). 

Performance based around guitar and string bass, handbells, recorder, and ukulele. 
Learning msucial notation.

Students will continue to learn about composing music as well as elements of music. 

Students will gain a better perspective on music of Canada. 

 

Goals of the Instrumental Music Program

Playing - To discover, Develop and evaluate their talents and abilities relative to playing a musical instruments, and to establish and reinforce correct techniques and skilkls. 

Listening - To develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis of music, 

Reading - To interpret rhythm, melody, harmony, form and expression as they appear in musical notation through both cognitive and psychomotor responses. 

Creating - To develop an additional avenue of self-expression by composing, improvising and interpreting music.

Valuing - To make students aware of the implications of music in our society with respect to music careers, its avocational and leisure uses, and to grow in the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of music as a source of personal fulfillment. 

Specific Outcomes

Students will develop aural skills through playing, listening, reading, and valuing. 

Students will develop interpretive skills through playing and creating. 

Students will develop theoretical skills through playing. 

Students will develop synthesis skills through playing, listening, reading, and valuing.

 

References 

Alberta Education (1988). Music: choral, general, instrumental. Retrieved from https://education.alberta.ca/media/313013/jhmusic.pdf