WELCOME!
My name is Ms. Hileman and this is the Lowell Elementary School Music Blog! Lowell's enthusiastic STAR music-makers have inspired this page. Using the links above, you can choose your child's grade level and find out more information about upcoming performances as well as sneek a peek into some lessons we're learning in the music room. It is a pleasure to work with such excited, passionate, and talented individuals!
Performance Dates:
Tuesday, December 10th: 2nd and 3rd grades
Tuesday, March 4th: Kindergarten and 1st grades
Tuesday, April 8th: 4th and 5th grades
Tuesday, March 4th: Kindergarten and 1st grades
Tuesday, April 8th: 4th and 5th grades
What is Music?
Music is SCIENCE
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume, melody, and harmony all at once with the most exact control of time.
Music is MATH
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French. The notation is certainly not English, but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complex and universal language.
Music is HISTORY
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, even the country and/or any racial feelings.
Music is PHYSICAL EDUCATION
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is ART
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, etc.
Why do I teach Music?
Not because I expect you to major in music!
Not because I expect you to play and instrument or sing all your life!
Not so you can relax or have fun!
BUT....
So you will be human.
So you will recognize beauty.
So you will be sensitive.
So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world.
So you will have something to cling to.
So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good...in short, more life. <3
Compliments of: ATTITUDE CONCEPTS FOR TODAY, INC.
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume, melody, and harmony all at once with the most exact control of time.
Music is MATH
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French. The notation is certainly not English, but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complex and universal language.
Music is HISTORY
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, even the country and/or any racial feelings.
Music is PHYSICAL EDUCATION
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is ART
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, etc.
Why do I teach Music?
Not because I expect you to major in music!
Not because I expect you to play and instrument or sing all your life!
Not so you can relax or have fun!
BUT....
So you will be human.
So you will recognize beauty.
So you will be sensitive.
So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world.
So you will have something to cling to.
So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good...in short, more life. <3
Compliments of: ATTITUDE CONCEPTS FOR TODAY, INC.