Music The Music program at Narbethong State Special School acknowledges the rights of all students to participate in individualised, relevant and diverse music experiences. For a human being, aesthetic growth is highly desirable. Almost all children respond to music and most express great pleasure through participation. Expressively, music provides a means for communicating needs and expressing a wide range of feelings. All this takes place in a situation that is both powerful and non-threatening.
Music provides a means for students to experience a wide range of experiences and human feelings.
In fact, music often reaches children when other methods have been found to be ineffective. On the whole, music at Narbethong is used 'functionally' to develop non-musical goals. Music is used to actively involve the students in meaningful experiences, which develop skills appropriate to individual functioning levels. Music is valued as a means of interacting with others and understanding others within the social settings in which we operate. Each of the four strands in the Music Curriculum 1. create and perform 2. listen and perceive 3.