The General Music Program at ISM has adopted the concept that all students should experience music by making music, making up music and then making sense of that music. By giving students the opportunity to make music they experience the arts by doing. Making up music gives each child the opportunity to create music in class and in performance situations. Making sense of the music gives the student not only knowledge, skills and literacy, but also the aesthetic experience that is essential to responding to the arts. These varied experiences include singing, playing (the Orff instrumentarium, various percussion instruments and recorder), moving, speaking, improvisation, acting, poetry and the spoken word.
Musicians at MS/HS, vocal or instrumental, experience different facets of expressing ideas and emotions musically:
