Maya Angelou Phoenix Music
California Arts Standards: “In music, students discover music’s expressive elements, including basic concepts and terminology used to comprehend music. They develop skills necessary to produce music, and are able to reflect, critique, and connect personal experience to music. The standards describe expectations for learning in music regardless of style or genre and impart the breadth and depth of the music experience through the art-making processes.”
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Music Program Educational Objectives:
- To provide students with a pleasant, positive experience that increases their appreciation and enjoyment of music.
- To increase the music students' and possibly the non-music students' enthusiasm for the school experience, thus improving attendance and motivating students toward increased academic achievement.
- To develop in students an enhanced aesthetic sensitivity for music as an art form by disciplined study and application of its various elements, both separately and as they are combined into a coherent musical whole.
- To prepare students for careers in music.
- To provide students with a healthy lifelong hobby or avocation.
- To increase student involvement in decision-making and therefore create a strong sense of ownership within the music program.