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ENRICHMENT
Enrichment Classes expound upon the understanding and
appreciation of music and the fine arts to the glory of God.
AGES 0 - 5
Our Music Play class is for our youngest Nashville Notes musicians - ages 0-3 are welcome to participate with an accompanying parent and ages 4-5 are welcome to participate as a drop off (parents are still welcome!) This class focuses on experiencing music through movement and activity.
- Each semester they learn about a composer of classical music while focusing on specific instruments of the orchestra, melodic direction of the tune, rhythmic elements, and more! They also enjoy moving to music with scarves and ribbon streamers.
- - Students learn how to read rhythm notation while playing classroom instruments like rhythm sticks, bucket drums, Boomwhackers, and other unpitched percussion!
- Singing games are used as an important musical foundation skill with students learning solfege syllables and steady beat while having fun with their classmates.
As an Orff-Schulwerk certified and Kodaly trained teacher, RaeAnna Goss believes that laying a foundation for music starts in these young years as children experience moving to the steady beat and are introduced to music notation through Kodaly rhythm symbols and solfege. They focus on quarter note, quarter rest, and paired eighth notes. Students are also introduced to the full diatonic scale, but singing games and activities focus on the intervals sol and mi.
Art Play
AGES 3-5
Join us for our first arts class! This class is for our 3-5 yr olds. Each week we’ll read a book and work on an art project based off the book. We’ll explore a letter of the alphabet or number each week as well. Our goal is to enrich, encourage, and further develop each child’s God given creativity while also intentionally developing strong neuropathways all in a fun, inviting atmosphere! Parents are not required to stay in class with their child, however due to the versatile and ever changing nature of young ages, the teacher will communicate with the parent if their presence is deemed necessary for their student to thrive in the class setting.
Music Play
Grace Notes Music Foundations
AGES 6-7
Our Grace Notes Music Foundations continues building on skills taught in Music Play students are taught quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes, and are also introduced to half notes and whole notes. Students learn the solfege scale and aurally identify the sol-mi intervals along with the added note la. As an Orff-Schulwerk and Kodaly trained teacher, I believe in the sequential process of teaching music skills through imitation, composition, and improvisation.
- Each semester we learn about a composer of classical music while focusing on specific instruments of the orchestra, melodic direction of the tune, rhythmic elements, and more! We enjoy moving to music with scarves and ribbon streamers.
- Rhythm and melody are performed in class with rhythm sticks, bucket drums, Boomwhackers, and other unpitched percussion!
- Singing games are used as an important musical foundation skill with students singing solfege syllables and steady beat while having fun with their classmates.
We are not a performance group but we love having parents join us for an “informance” at the end of the semester, sharing some of our favorite activities from class.
Praise Station Music Foundations
AGES 8 - 9
Our Praise Station Music Foundation class continues building on skills taught in Music Play and Grace Notes - students are taught quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes, half notes, whole notes along with 16th notes. Students learn the solfege scale and aurally identify the sol-mi-la intervals along with the added tone set mi-re-do. As an Orff-Schulwerk and Kodaly trained teacher, I believe in the sequential process of teaching music skills through imitation, composition, and improvisation.
- Each semester we learn about a composer of classical music while focusing on specific instruments of the orchestra, melodic direction of the tune, rhythmic elements, and more! We enjoy moving to music with scarves and ribbon streamers.
- Rhythm and melody are performed in class with rhythm sticks, bucket drums, Boomwhackers, and other unpitched percussion!
- Praise Station Foundation students are required to have their own recorder for both semesters. In each semester we will spend 4-6 weeks learning traditional notation beginning with the treble clef notes B, A, and G. In the second semester we will also add the notes E, and D.
- Singing games are used as an important musical foundation skill with students singing solfege syllables and steady beat while having fun with their classmates.
We are not a performance group but we love having parents join us for an “informance” at the end of the semester, sharing some of our favorite activities from class.
Students at Nashville Notes in instrumental and choral ensembles designated with an asterisk in the Course Catalog, receive instruction in the essential topics of music theory and aural skills as part of their education to help them develop as a holistic musician. This 20 minute class is included with and in addition to instrumental ensembles and the two older choirs.
Musicianship & Theory (M&T)
Below are the titles and brief descriptions of each class. Please see the Course Catalog, pages 22-26, for age requirements and other details.
Scale Your Knowledge of Scales (beyond M&T)
The purpose of this course is twofold. First: to solidify and deepen the students’ knowledge of major and minor key signatures and scales which they encounter within the context of Western classical music in their ensembles. Second: to expose them to other scales that have been used since the era of the Gregorian chant, in the 20th century classical music, in other genres and/or in other cultures (modes, chromatic and whole-tone scale, pentatonic scale, blues scale, etc.). Students will learn to identify these in a written form, and will be given an opportunity to hear the differences when played on an instrument. Examples will also be given from compositions that are utilizing these keys.
Prerequisite: Graduated from Musicianship & Theory class
Deeper Dive into Intervals and Chords (beyond M&T)
Comprehension of basic building blocks of classical music and their relationships unlocks a whole new world of understanding of how music works and what a fascinating system it is -all while being beautiful and full of various emotions. The course will progress from reviewing perfect and major intervals, through minor, augmented and diminished intervals to chords and their inversions.
Prerequisite: knowledge of perfect and major intervals
Secrets of a Musical Score
Students will learn what kinds of information are “hidden” in a musical score. Behind each instrumental part is much knowledge – what family does the instrument belong to, what is its range, is it a transposing instrument, what clef is used for notation, what are some specific ways of note articulation, etc. We will explore scores of different types of ensembles from choirs to a string quartet, wind quintet, string ensemble, and a symphonic orchestra from well-known composers.
Introduction to Worldviews
Come explore worldviews with this 6-week elective class! In this lecture and discussion style class we’ll be going over the basics of the major worldviews we see around us today. A worldview is the “lens” or view through which we see and interpret the world, which in turn directly affects how we live our lives, approach our work and family. We’ll see how this also affects a composer and artist’s work.
Fun With Composers
The Young People’s Concerts are special opportunities for students of all ages to attend a concert for free. Parents are only $10. Tickets are available on the Nashville Symphony website under “Education.” In this class, students enjoy “active listening” lessons to learn about the composers, conductors, and performers of the selected concert in the Young People’s Concert.
Inside the Music at the Symphony
The Curb Dress Rehearsals are a special opportunity for students age 10 and up to attend a concert for free. Parents are only $10. Tickets are available on the Nashville Symphony website under “Education.” In this class, students study parts of the orchestral score and learn about the composers, conductors, and performers of the selected concert in the Curb Dress Rehearsal.
Chrome Music Lab & Noteflight
In this 6-week course, students will learn how to compose their own music using free internet programs. Each student will need to bring their own laptop or Chromebook and have a valid email. We will learn how to navigate the online notation program Noteflight and transcribe some simple melodies into the program, compose our own melodies, and also use Chrome Music Lab to experiment with composing techniques of ostinato, motive and sequence, and more!
Film Music
When watching a movie, have you ever noticed how much background music affects how you feel or even what you think about a particular scene? In this course, we will explore what film music does, how it works and why. Topics will include: functions of film music, its musical properties, its ability to define meaning, express emotion, and guide our response to the moving images. All will be demonstrated using examples from various movies.
Voice Master Class
An in-depth study of the function and use of the voice where students learn the anatomy of the voice, and the working parts in regard to different styles and ranges of the voice. Students are assigned pieces to analyze and represent different styles, functions, and qualities of the human voice. Vocal health is a major part of the overall curriculum, as well as style and performance. Styles discussed include classical, musical theater, contemporary, pop/rock, and worship.
Song Writing
This class is an overall look into the art of songwriting. Topics include: phrasing, rhyme, structure, hooks (melodic and lyrical), word painting, and the art of the co-write.
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Students analyze sacred and popular songs for form and content.
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Students perform in class analysis of song structure.
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Students are given song writing assignments.