Music
The music curriculum at St. Gregory the Great School allows students to express themselves while exercising their mind and body through creative expression. Our music program is closely aligned with the NYS arts standards and integrated with the STREAM framework. Local partnerships with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Amherst Symphony Orchestra enhance students musical experience.
St. Greg's music program allows students to move physically while playing rhythm instruments, hand bells, keyboards, recorders and through dancing and moving to
music. Music requires coordination, controlled use of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles as our ears and brain interpret the sounds. Music teaches math as students learn note values, addition, subtraction and fractions.
music. Music requires coordination, controlled use of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles as our ears and brain interpret the sounds. Music teaches math as students learn note values, addition, subtraction and fractions.
Students learn about history as lives of composers and eras of music are explored. Music teaches science through the study of acoustics, dynamics, and chart reading.
Music is also a foreign language and is often referred to as a "universal language" as it utilizes musical notations. Many of the terms students learn in music class are derived from Italian, German or French.
Music is Art! Music combines all of the above and allows students to express and share emotions. Our students sing at school and parish masses, particpate in choral concerts, and perform at nursing homes and senior citizen events.