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Overview
The Music In Education curriculum is sequential, compre-
hensive and designed to systematically provide students
with musical knowledge that they can use to express
their own creativity. The foundation for this creative ex-
pression is the development of musical literacy. The sys-
tematic acquisition of musical skills and the understand-
ing of musical concepts is accompanied with integrated
assessment through review and quiz activities.
Music In Education supports and encourages the integra-
tion of other methods and materials that will enhance stu-
dent understanding and achievement. The curriculum is
delivered via a series of lessons grouped by “Opus”. An
Opus focuses upon a particular music concept and/or
skill.
Each Opus is designed to develop comprehensive stu-
dent understanding of specific musical concepts. Stu-
dents will sing, play, discuss and/or listen using the new
concept, then apply that concept in individual and group
creative activities. Because the introduction of concepts
is integrative and sequential, songs, activities and skills
in subsequent Opuses reinforce and reapply the con-
cepts introduced in previous Opuses.
Initial Opuses are ideally suited to be used with students
as early as the second and third grade who possess im-
portant basic reading skills and motor development. In-
troductory “Preludes” provide experiences for early learn-
ers Pre-K through first grade, as well as learners with spe-
cial needs.
Concepts and skills have been incorporated into a unit of
instruction called “Opus”. Each Opus has a sequence of
4 to 5 lessons that embrace the musical behaviors of:
✦
playing & performing (keyboards and optionally other
classroom instruments)
✦
singing
✦
composing
✦
listening
✦
improvising
✦
reading
✦
notating
✦
analyzing
✦
describing
Each Opus has “synthesis”, “review”, and “quiz” sec-
tions.
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Synthesis – focuses on higher level thinking skills.
This section typically asks the student to “put into
practice” the concepts and skills that have been pre-
sented in the various lessons through creative and/or
original thinking. Compositional activities often form
the basis of this section.