Mission Statement: We shall provide a challenging education in a safe, orderly, and supportive environment in order to help prepare students for life-long learning and responsible citizenship. |
 Regency Place Elementary Home of the Regency Place Knights 2635 Bitters Road San Antonio, Texas 78217 Phone: 210-650-1525 Fax: 210-650-1532 |
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Music with Mrs. Mauldin
| Mrs. Mauldin | pmauld@neisd.net |
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Mrs. Mauldin our Music teacher received her Bachelor of Music at Angelo State University in 1994. She majored in voice and went on to intern for graduate school teaching private voice instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Curriculum: The music department has an organized and thorough curriculum put together. The curriculum is continuously being implemented and evaluated. Elementary students experience gradations of difficulty in the following elements: rhythm, pitch, texture and harmony, timbre/tone color, expressive qualities, correlated and integrated units and Enrichment units.
Philosophy: What can music do for your child? It can help develop poise and self confidence through performance. It can create mood and emotion through listening, playing and singing. It can widen interests in many areas and develop an appreciation for all music.
WHY DO WE HAVE MUSIC AT REGENCY PLACE ELEMENTARY? NOT because we expect them to major in music or play or sing professionally...NOT so they can only relax and have fun...BUT, so they will be human and have a general appreciation for music throughout their lifetime.
WHAT IS MUSIC? Music is a Science-It is exact, specific and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. Music is mathematical. It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper. Music is a foreign language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English, but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language. Music is history. Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and or racial feeling. Music is physical education. It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. Music is all these things, but most of all music is art. It allows a human being to take all the dry, technically difficult techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate!
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