The Lower School music program is comprehensive, incorporating
all aspects of the musical experience: singing, playing
classroom instruments, moving and responding to music, notating,
improvising and creating music, and describing or evaluating
music. The origin, nature, and purpose of music, deriving from
our Creator, are addressed, and students consider how music can
be a means of glorifying God. Students gain a familiarity with
the great composers and their works. Music and dance are
incorporated into various class and school productions
throughout the year. Kindergartners may perform a Native
American harvest song as part of their study of Native American
culture, fourth graders dance a roundel in their medieval
mystery play, fifth graders learn traditional American folk
songs as they study the Revolutionary period. Students learn
within an interactive, hands-on setting, as music is best
learned and enjoyed by doing, and the curriculum incorporates
principles and methods of Feierabend, Kodaly, Gordon, Dal