Mrs. Alicia Soller Ms. Shelly Ragan
Music Educator Music Educator
Music is an integral part of all cultures and is an important part of the human experience, as stated in Fort Zumwalt’s Curriculum. Rock Creek students will attend music class for 80 minutes a week. In the music classroom, students will be exposed to a variety of musical concepts, styles and activities including singing, instrument exploration, dance and movement.
“Why Teach Music?”
Music is science – It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics.
Music is mathematical – It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into
fractions which must be done immediately and not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language - Most of the terms used in music are in Italian, German
or French. Music is a complete and universal language.
Music is history - Music reflects the environment and times of its creation.
Music is physical education - It requires fantastic coordination of finger, hands, arms,
lip and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the back, stomach,
and chest muscles.
Music is all of these things, but the most of all Music is art - It allows a human being to
take all these dry, technically difficult techniques and use them to create
emotion. That is one thing that science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling,
emotion.
Why is Music taught? - We teach music so that our students will be human. So they
will recognize beauty. So they will be sensitive. So they will have something
to cling to. So they will have more love, more compassion, more good ---
in short, more life.
By: Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser