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Music

Music is taught two to three days a week. The classes are a blend
of theory and musical experience. Students learn the theories of such
things as rhythm and beat, notation and composition, and will play
music using rhythm and beat as well as compose songs with musical
notation. Singing is taught throughout the Lower School

 G R A D E 3
Topics: beat, style, note reading, recorder (instrument), voice,
instrument families
Songs include: "Star Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful," "Good
Morning," "Young Folks, Old Folks," "Kookaburra in a Round," "Rockin’ Robin"

 G R A D E 4
Topics: beat, rhythm, boom whackers (instrument), voice, writing
in music, instrument families
Songs include: "Star Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful," "Con Gioia
in Cuor
," "La Canzone del Vino," "Pass the Witch’s Broom"

 G R A D E 5
Topics: recorder (instrument), writing, form, theory and
composition, voice
Songs include: "Star Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful," "My
Country ‘Tis of Thee," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Shenandoah," "Home on
the Range," "Ave Maria," "Dona Nobis Pacem," "Agnus Dei," "To The Heights,"
"Minstrel Boy," "Dem Bones," "Good Christian Men Rejoice"