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| Lower School Music Curriculum
Lower School Music at Visitation is not for school but for life. Through a carefully sequenced curriculum, students develop life-long skills in active music-making, become discriminating music listeners, and use musical understanding to deepen their perception of themselves, their community, and their world. A visitor to the Lower School music classroom might find Montessori students responding with creative movement to music of Vivaldi, or observe 5th graders singing accompanying themselves with percussion instruments as they sing a canon in French or Spanish. On another day, 3rd graders might be playing recorders, learning treble clef pitches by composing their own songs, or Kindergarteners may be exploring concepts of tempo and dynamics through drumming. The classroom is equipped with a wide array of hands-on learning equipment -- hand drums, xylophones, glockenspiels, African percussion instruments, computers with MIDI-interface, and much more. Students share their music learning with their parents and the community in two yearly theme-based concerts, carefully structured to integrate music learning with developmentally appropriate performance skills.
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