 | In keeping with the school's emphasis on the development of the whole child, all students are involved in a broad program of creative arts.
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In keeping with the NCCS mission and the school’s emphasis on the development of the whole child, all students are involved in a broad and varied program of creative arts. At NCCS, these experiences are viewed as an integral part of each student’s academic education.
An appreciation of music and an introduction to singing, listening, and music theory begin in the Early Childhood Program. Here the elements of music-- melody, rhythm, form and texture are at the forefront. Children sing, chant, play games, dance, move to classical and folk music, dramatize rhymes, poems and stories, and improvise movement and melody on unpitched and pitched percussion instruments. Beginners participate three days a week in half groups and Kindergarteners participate twice a week, once as a half group and once as a whole group.
Students build on these skills in the Lower School with the singing of songs and rounds and the playing of Orff percussion instruments, and have frequent opportunities to perform at weekly assemblies.
All Middle School students have general music where they sing, play the recorder, and study the elements of music, music history, opera, and instruments of the orchestra. Students also participate in either orchestra or chorus, each of which practices both by grade and as an ensemble every week. Middle and Upper School musicians perform at numerous concerts both in and out of school during the course of the year.
In the Upper School, seventh graders study all aspects of American music from its colonial beginnings to its contemporary forms, and eighth graders explore world music in conjunction with their social studies units. All seventh graders participate in chorus and may also play in the orchestra. Eighth and ninth graders may elect to audition for chorus and orchestra, which meet weekly, and may take a general music course as well. |
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