American Popular Music for Violinists

The Music School of Delaware has partnered with Presbyterian Church of the Covenant’s EDGE for Tomorrow program and Trinity Episcopal Parish to provide MELODY. The mission of MELODY is to teach life and community-building skills through music while making quality music education accessible to all. The program includes string instrument…

In a fun group piano setting, children learn to play the songs they will sing, drum, and dance to in class. Featuring activities that lay the foundation for success at the keyboard, this creative approach provides a natural pathway to music literacy, as children read music both visually and aurally.…

21st Century Community Learning Centers provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools. The program helps students meet state and local academic standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math; offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that…

Requires previous music theory experience. Learn minor scales and key signatures, whole tone scales, intervals, augmented and diminished triads, 7th chords, and compound and irregular meter. Additional topics include cadences, phrases, periods, melody writing and transposition. Aural skills are further developed, including melodic dictation, identification of triads and harmonic dictation.