Music: Expressive Sonic Design

• The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
• Vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
• Music is the arithmetic of sound as optics is the geometry of light.  ~ Claude Debussy
• Mathematics is music for the mind; music is mathematics for the soul.   ~ anonymous
• It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.  ~ Samuel Johnson
• Music is a safe kind of high.   ~ Jimi Hendrix

Links to other musiciselementary pages

instruments  

melody

pitch

rhythm

       Bach's Tour of Musical Instruments

       The Mysteries of Music

       Music: The Quest for Its Science   about the science of sound

       Music for the Kids Soul   about styles of music

       Music Mania about instruments

       Music Notes   Interactive musical experience

National Standards in Music Education

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. 

2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. 

3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. 

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. 

5. Reading and notating music. 

6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. 

7. Evaluating music and music performances. 

8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. 

9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

for teachers