Union Mill Elementary School

13611 Springstone Drive, Clifton, VA 20124 | 703.322.8500 | Attendance: 703.322.8585

MUSIC

Music education is an integral part of a child’s education. Through music, children connect classroom learning to life experience. Music deepens and enriches a child’s world through imaginative movement, expressive singing, and playing instruments together.

The Fairfax County Music Program of Studies corresponds with the Music Standards of Learning for Virginia.

Perform

-Participative component

-Involvement of each student to

demonstrate mastery of musical concepts

-Areas of performance:

*Singing

*Playing instruments

*Moving to Music

Create

-Use of notational tools of music to express ideas, thoughts, feelings through composition

-Individual exploration of

the voice and instruments through improvisation

Investigate

-Study and practice of music theory through:

*Music reading

*Notation

*Sight-reading

-Analysis of musical form and

history using critical thinking skills

-Investigation of vocal and

instrumental timbres

-Evaluation of aesthetic artistic

values of music

Connect

-Understanding and awareness of connection between music

and other disciplines, such as:

*Foreign Language

*Poetry

*Mathematics

*Science

*History and Social Studies

-Exploration of elements of music

to understand interrelationships

among the arts

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