All students at Anne Hutchinson School have general music class once each week for 45 minutes. Students explore the fundamentals of music through singing, playing classroom instruments, learning to read and write musical notation, and discovering many styles and genres of music.
The music curriculum follows the National Standards for Music:

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
Some highlights of the general music curriculum at each grade level include:

2nd grade- Folk songs, audience/ listening skills, ear training, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, improvisation on instruments, and the presentation of a 2nd grade play in the Spring.

3rd Grade- Instrument families, notation of music, singing and ear training, playing the recorder, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, and the presentation of a recorder concert in June.

4th grade- Musical vocabulary, conducting, New York composers, Native American songs, notation of music, singing and ear training, Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, and Mozart's The Magic Flute.

5th grade- Jazz and Blues, Patriotic songs, Listening Journal, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, singing and ear training, and the DARE and Commencement songs.

Chorus-All 4th and 5th grade students may join chorus. This group meets for rehearsal every Thursday morning from 7:45-8:30am and sometimes during recess. Chorus is an opportunity to further develop singing and ensemble skills and learn a wide variety of songs. The Chorus performs at both the Winter and Spring concerts.

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