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Every child, in every elementary school, has the potential for successful, meaningful interactions with music. The development of this potential, through numerous encounters with a wide variety of music and abundant opportunities to participate regularly in developmentally appropriate music activities, is the right of every child.

The Hillsborough County Elementary Music Curriculum provides a focus for music educators to ensure that a balanced and sequential program is offered in every school. The Curriculum is exciting and rigorous! Students learn through music making (singing, playing instruments, creating) and musical thinking (reading, reflecting, interpreting).

A summary of what students need to know and do in music is as follows:

Skills and Techniques

• Singing
• Performing on instruments
• Reading and Notating music

Creation and Communication

• Improvising
• Composing and Arranging

Cultural and Historical Connections

• Understanding music in relation to culture and history

Aesthetic and Critical Analysis

• Listening to, Analyzing, and Describing music
• Evaluating music and musical performances

Applications to Life

• Understanding the relationship between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
• Understands the relationship between music and the world beyond the school setting.

SDHC : Division of Instruction : Department of Elementary Education