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This philosophy of Music Education is based on the concept that Music has intrinsic value and every
child has a human need to experience Music as an expressive art form which contains the qualities of feeling that correspond
to the patterns of human life. Music education provides the opportunity for cognition by sensing the qualities of feeling
inherent in melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color, texture, and form. I contend that all mankind has a profound need for
Music as a means of knowing, experiencing, and understanding the self and the world. To achieve this our student must
have the opportunity to externalize their feelings into a form on which they can reflect and clarify their own human experiences.
In as much as reading and writing develop our students' thinking skills, creating and experiencing Music develops our students'
ability to feel and sense. The process of externalizing the internal process of feeling through Music is a basic need
and life-long process for all humanity. I am committed to fulfilling this need for all my students.
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