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DeGrazia Elementary School Music Department

Band	Orchestra	General Music	General Music
Dave Alexander	Debbie Peterson	Willie Hintze	Jennifer Schwartz

Rationale for Music Programs       The value of music education rests primarily on the importance of music itself. Therefore the instruction provided in the DeGrazia Elementary School Music program centers upon the premise of music education as aesthetic education. The riches of music lie embedded in its aesthetic content. As left and right brain research continues to find that there is an increased need for the systematic development of both spheres of the brain, it therefore becomes increasingly important to maintain areas of the school's curriculum that foster the intuitive, feelingful, and creative dimensions of the mind. Music instruction at DeGrazia is aimed at bringing forth awareness of this aesthetic content as it is found in music. Aesthetic education in the musical arts consists of the development of the perception of musical elements and a heightened feelingful reaction to them. The ability to intelligently encounter the depths of meaning found in music is one of the most valuable life skills that a person can acquire.

     Note: A special thanks to the Music Educators of Berks Co. for the link to their "Why Music" articles.