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Music
at Friends’ is meant to be both enjoyable and content oriented.
Our goal is that children have fun while learning musical skills
through age appropriate activities. Our program is based on a balanced,
sequential, and comprehensive approach. This approach is known as
Comprehensive Musicianship, sometimes called the American School
of Music Education. This curriculum includes four components: musical
concepts, sensory modes of learning, levels of understanding, and
musical skills. Musical concepts are the elements of music, e.g.
pitch, duration, form, timbre, style, and expression. Sensory modes
of learning include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile. Levels
of understanding (as defined by child psychologist Jerome Bruner)
are inactive, iconic, and symbolic. Music skills are perform, describe,
and create. Children at Friends’ will experience musical concepts
through engaging in musical skills via several sensory modes at
age appropriate levels of understanding.
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