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Music Class

Music Curriculum and Instruction – Grades ELC – 8

Music provides a challenging, comprehensive, and relevant curriculum that fulfills our Mission, our 21st Century Learning Philosophy, and SLE’s by implementing a philosophy of a child-centered program that involves students of all learning styles. The music program uses a spiraling, sequenced, and thematic approach that develops the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learners.

Music concepts and skills are taught for every grade level, but are adjusted for age appropriateness. Music builds literacy and understanding through singing, listening, moving, creating, critical thinking, and meaningful assessment. These concepts involve all learners. They learn to imitate, explore, describe, identify, label, practice, reinforce, read, interpret through visual representation, and create.

All students learn musical elements which include dynamics, tempo, articulation, vocal and instrumental tone color, duration, pitch, melodies, and harmonies, major and minor tonalities. Design is also addressed utilizing texture, form, and structure.

The music curriculum also integrates activities in related arts; such as Drama, Theater, Dance, Literature, and also celebrates cultural diversity. Cultural contents of songs focus on style and background of cultures and/or time periods.


St. Anthony School Band – Grades 5 – 8

This course is designed to create musically literate students through the medium of music performance. As such, all students will be expected to read and comprehend the written language of music, and to understand musical concepts and terms. Students will be expected to hone their abilities to transform written notation into coherent aural form.

Areas of knowledge will include, but not limited to:

  • Music Theory – notation, acoustic principles, analysis
  • Aural Training – sight reading, basic harmony
  • Practical Applications – skills and techniques, care and maintenance

Beginning students will focus on the fundamentals of sound production, building a good physical foundation, developing good habits of practice, as well as becoming familiar with music notation. We will focus on developing musicianship through the flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and limited percussion instruments.

Students will be expected to participate in at least one practice session per week, and to attend all scheduled performances of the school music program.




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