MUSIC

 

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Music

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Music education at ACS integrates fundamental musical activities and presents them in a sequential, pedagogically sound curriculum. As identified in the 1997 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) in music, the processes of creating, performing, and responding to music are interwoven throughout a balanced and complete music program.

The first of these processes, CREATING, involves composing, arranging or improvising music.
Through these activities students engage their aural skills and prior knowledge of music to
create a personal and original musical idea.

PERFORMING, the second musical process identified, promotes a sense of personal
accomplishment, shared goals, community, and the joy of experiencing a musical work from the
unique perspective of performing it.
Responding to music completes the trio of fundamental musical processes, and includes
activities rich in mental, physical, and emotional complexity.

Finally, as students learn that EVALUTING musical
works helps them learn to discriminate, think independently, and develop their own views of musical meaning and beauty.