"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die." -- Paul Simon
At Blissfield Community Schools, sixth and seventh grade students not enrolled in band participate in a nine-week General Music course. The course allows students to explore ways to participate in music now and throughout their lives. Instructor, Wanice Linn, provides a variety of opportunities for students to participate based on national and state standards and benchmarks for music education. "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." -- Charlie Parker
This year's theme for General Music is "My Life, My Music." Students participating in this course will expand their understanding of music by... - exploring their own personal relationship with music,
- discovering new ways of participating in music, including listening, evaluating, performing and, eventually, composing their own original musical works,
- examining the lives and perspectives of professional musicians, and
- searching for personal meaning in established musical works and their own compositions.
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