MUSIC EDUCATION

The importance and benefits of music education cannot be underestimated. Engaging and understanding music throughout one’s life helps to refine important life enhancing skills. Skills such as creative problem-solving, patience, determination, cooperation and empathy, are all valuable and necessary skills to excel and accomplish a person’s dreams and goals in society. Music study, formally or informally, appreciation and application can help build self-efficacy through self expression and calculated risk-taking.

MUSIC NOTATION

The following pdfs introduce the basics of reading music on paper. These downloadable and printable teaching tools allow teachers to present this beginning material in a simple and concise way that students will find easy to absorb.