Music

  • Chorus, violins, and piano (piano is in partnership with Move Over Mozart) are offered one day a week at each school site as a free after-school enrichment to district students. In the fall, chorus is open to 3rd-6th graders with our kinder-2nd graders joining in the spring. Violin is for 5th & 6th graders. Piano is open to all grade levels. Additional details on the permission slips.

    Coro, violines y piano (el piano está asociado con Move Over Mozart) se ofrecen un día a la semana en cada escuela como un enriquecimiento gratuito después de la escuela para los estudiantes del distrito. En el otoño, el coro está abierto a los alumnos de 3.° a 6.° grado y nuestros alumnos de kínder a 2.° grado se unen en la primavera. El violín es para los alumnos de 5º y 6º grado. Piano está abierto a todos los niveles de grado. Detalles adicionales en las hojas de permiso.

    Violin Permission Slip/permiso de violín (coming soon)

    Chorus Permission Slip/permiso de coro

    Piano online registration link/Enlace de registro en línea de piano

    After School Music Enrichment Schedule:

    If you'd like to donate to the violin program feel free to write a check to Bellevue Union School District - Music Brochure. Please specify that is is for the violin program on the check.

    For more information about after school music please call the District Office at 707-542-5197 xt 2.

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Benefits of Music

  • Music is a Science
    Music requires research. It is specific and demands exact acoustics. For instance, a conductor’s full score is a chart or graph, indicating frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with exact control of time.

    Music is Mathematical
    It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously.

    Music is a Foreign Language
    The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French. The language of music also incorporates notations, which represent a highly developed form of shorthand, using symbols to represent ideas.

    Music is History
    Music often reflects the environment and times of its creation. From music, children learn lessons about historical events, as well as the ethnic and cultural heritage reflected in the piece.

    Music is Physical Education
    It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles. Children who play music also show extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to sounds heard by the ear and interpreted by the mind

    Music is Art
    It develops insight and creates emotion. Through music, children learn to share their humanism, express thoughts and feelings, and contribute to the infinite and collective spirit we call “life.”
    Provided by the Music Achievement Council

    Harvard - "Links between musical training and executive function"

    Forbes - "Students do better in science, math & English is they also take music lessons."