Our Lady of Victory of Catholic School
Baltimore, Maryland
Music
Our music classes consist of a myriad of activities, that rigorously engage student learning to a numerous, and diverse, styles and genres of music.
Within the primary/elementary music classroom, students will distinguish pitches via numerous singing rehearsals and performances: reading (analysis), rehearsing, and performing a diverse collection of songs, including those relating to our Catholic faith; rehearse, and perform, on musical instruments, i.e. shakers, wood blocks, drums, musical rhythms, including their own self-composed rhythms; during Christmas, students rehearse and perform for other students, parents, and community alike, spreading the true meaning of Christmas.
During the intermediate years, students will continue their progress with their vocal development through reading (analysis), rehearsing, and performing religious music, i.e. our School Mass hymns, which consist from Traditional hymns, to Contemporary hymns, to Praise and Worship hymns. In third and fourth grades, students will begin to learn how to read music, i.e. treble clef and standard rhythmic notation, i.e. whole note/rest, half note/rest, etc. Moreover, students will continue to develop their rhythmic skills through classroom instruments, i.e. shakers, triangles, drums, during rehearsals and performance.
As all aforementioned is continued to be developed in middle school, i.e. reading traditional standard notation (analysis of musical scores), vocal development (singing Catholic hymns), and rhythmic composition, middle school students begin the examination of different genres of music, i.e. Classical Music (Grade 6), Jazz (Grade 7), and Opera and Musicals (Grade). Not only do students investigate by listening to the music of the genres, they examine the historical perspective of the music was composed in.
CONTACT:
W. Nicholas Zurowski -- [email protected]
Within the primary/elementary music classroom, students will distinguish pitches via numerous singing rehearsals and performances: reading (analysis), rehearsing, and performing a diverse collection of songs, including those relating to our Catholic faith; rehearse, and perform, on musical instruments, i.e. shakers, wood blocks, drums, musical rhythms, including their own self-composed rhythms; during Christmas, students rehearse and perform for other students, parents, and community alike, spreading the true meaning of Christmas.
During the intermediate years, students will continue their progress with their vocal development through reading (analysis), rehearsing, and performing religious music, i.e. our School Mass hymns, which consist from Traditional hymns, to Contemporary hymns, to Praise and Worship hymns. In third and fourth grades, students will begin to learn how to read music, i.e. treble clef and standard rhythmic notation, i.e. whole note/rest, half note/rest, etc. Moreover, students will continue to develop their rhythmic skills through classroom instruments, i.e. shakers, triangles, drums, during rehearsals and performance.
As all aforementioned is continued to be developed in middle school, i.e. reading traditional standard notation (analysis of musical scores), vocal development (singing Catholic hymns), and rhythmic composition, middle school students begin the examination of different genres of music, i.e. Classical Music (Grade 6), Jazz (Grade 7), and Opera and Musicals (Grade). Not only do students investigate by listening to the music of the genres, they examine the historical perspective of the music was composed in.
CONTACT:
W. Nicholas Zurowski -- [email protected]