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 THEORY

The following pdfs, with accompanying video links, present beginning basic music theory concepts in a simple and concise way. Music theory is a great way to deepen a student’s understanding of how music works and is organized regardless of the genre or style the student is interested in. For the teacher, this tool gives a flexibility that enables the teacher to communicate these concepts to different learning styles.

Music Theory