The Music Education program is based upon the belief that Music education contributes to the development of aesthetic sensitivity and provides experiences that permit students to fulfill a variety of intellectual, personal, and social needs. Music education should provide a foundation for a lifetime of musical growth.

Opportunities for both individual and group experiences are necessary in performing, creating, and describing music. The learning areas in these three areas constitute the key components of a music education program:

• Performance skills include the use of the voice, instruments and other sound producing media.
• Creating music is the process of developing musical ideas through composing, arranging, and improvising.
• Describing music includes reading and writing music notation as well as listening to music and demonstrating understanding through visual representation, verbal description, and movement.

Instrumental music begins in grade four and continues through grade twelve. This is an elective program in which all instruments of the band and orchestra are taught. The focus is on individual skill development and performance. Band and Orchestra participation in middle school is a yearlong course.

In middle school chorus, students will learn to be confident in their singing voice, and be able to demonstrate proper vocal techniques; students will be able to read music, including note reading, rhythms, key and time signatures; students will be exposed to choral elements, such as ensemble singing, blend, and vocal techniques; students will sing and perform a variety of music in both formal and informal situations, both individually and in an ensemble; and students will grow a love and appreciation for music and its influence in society.