Music
"Welcome to Musictown!" That is the catch phrase the younger children hear when they enter the classroom. They close their eyes each week and take an imaginary trip to the world of clefs, notes, and musical signs.
The Music Program runs from K4 through 8th Grade. It is a theory based program where students learn to read and write music. By 4th Grade, the students are able to compose their own piece of music. From the Early Childhood level through First Grade, the students are introduced to the staff, musical notation, high and low pitch, basic rhythm patterns, composers and the instruments of the orchestra. Moving on to Grades 2 and 3, students begin writing the notation on staff paper and concentrating on the Treble Clef. The students are also introduced to the timing of music. In Grades 4 through 8, they expand their knowledge of musical terms and apply them to more detailed composition. Adding dynamics to a musical piece adds more dimension to the music – the dynamics may deal with pitch- pianissimo (soft), forte (loud), etc. The dynamics may also deal with the movement of the music – presto (fast), grave (slow), etc. When they study the composers, their works and their lives, students learn to appreciate the hard work that composers did to create magnificent concertos, operas, etc. which are studied through hundreds of years. In the Spring, students participate in a Fine Arts Festival combining the Art and Music Programs at Holy Trinity.
There is a school choir which is open to students from Grades 3 to 8. Once a week students rehearse and do warm-ups, learn diction exercises as well as breathing exercises. The members of the choir sing at school masses and have also sung the National Anthem at the Pelicans Stadium. The basis for the group is to praise God through music.
Students participate in two classes of music per week. One class is the theory based program and the second is Liturgical Music/Mass where the children prepare for school masses and have the opportunity to learn all of the specifics of the Mass, why we do what we do during Mass, what each of the items are in the Sanctuary, etc. This gives them a total understanding of what goes on during our Liturgies, why it is done, and helps them to have total active participation as we worship together.
The Music Program runs from K4 through 8th Grade. It is a theory based program where students learn to read and write music. By 4th Grade, the students are able to compose their own piece of music. From the Early Childhood level through First Grade, the students are introduced to the staff, musical notation, high and low pitch, basic rhythm patterns, composers and the instruments of the orchestra. Moving on to Grades 2 and 3, students begin writing the notation on staff paper and concentrating on the Treble Clef. The students are also introduced to the timing of music. In Grades 4 through 8, they expand their knowledge of musical terms and apply them to more detailed composition. Adding dynamics to a musical piece adds more dimension to the music – the dynamics may deal with pitch- pianissimo (soft), forte (loud), etc. The dynamics may also deal with the movement of the music – presto (fast), grave (slow), etc. When they study the composers, their works and their lives, students learn to appreciate the hard work that composers did to create magnificent concertos, operas, etc. which are studied through hundreds of years. In the Spring, students participate in a Fine Arts Festival combining the Art and Music Programs at Holy Trinity.
There is a school choir which is open to students from Grades 3 to 8. Once a week students rehearse and do warm-ups, learn diction exercises as well as breathing exercises. The members of the choir sing at school masses and have also sung the National Anthem at the Pelicans Stadium. The basis for the group is to praise God through music.
Students participate in two classes of music per week. One class is the theory based program and the second is Liturgical Music/Mass where the children prepare for school masses and have the opportunity to learn all of the specifics of the Mass, why we do what we do during Mass, what each of the items are in the Sanctuary, etc. This gives them a total understanding of what goes on during our Liturgies, why it is done, and helps them to have total active participation as we worship together.
