General
Music
General
Music
What is General Music in the Fairfax County Schools?
Music education is an integral part of a child's complete education and enrichment. Through music, children make connections between classroom studies, life experiences, relationships, and emotions. Music touches the souls of children, thereby creating caring, accepting, well-rounded citizens with extraordinary characters.
The Fairfax County Music Program of Studies, organized into four basic strands, corresponds with the Music Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools.
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Perform
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*Participative component
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*Involvement of each student to demonstrate mastery
of musical concepts
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*Areas of performance: Singing, Playing instruments,
Moving to music
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Create
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*Use of notational tools of music to express ideas,
thoughts, feelings through composition
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*Individual exploration of the voice and instruments
through improvisation
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Investigate
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*Study and practice of music theory through: Music
reading, Notation, Sight-reading
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*Analysis of musical form and history using critical
thinking skills
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*Investigation of vocal and instrumental timbres
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*Evaluation of aesthetic and artistic values of music
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Connect
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*Understanding and awareness of connection between
music and other disciplines, such as: Foreign language, Poetry, Mathematics,
Science, History and Social Studies
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*Exploration of elements of music to understand the
interrelationships among the arts
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Created by Fairfax General Music Education Association 2000
Curator:
Pat Wilson - pawilson@fcps.edu
Last Updated:September 6, 2008