Music Education
February 6, 2026
January was a wonderfully musical start to the new year at Mulvey! Our primary Mulvey music makers began the new year exploring Foley Music (the art of creating and recording sound effects for everyday life in video). The students explored virtually every instrument in the music, exploring and learning how they make sound, how many ways they can make sound, and how sound can be paired with video.
Our intermediate Mulvey music makers spent the month learning about sixteenth-note subdivisions (ta-ka-di-mi), simple major-to-minor chord progressions on Orff instruments and Ukuleles, and how words and syllables create rhythm. These new skills lead to the goal of a Ta-Ka-Di-Mi Rap/Drum battle!
Music enrichment ensembles and opportunities are thriving at Mulvey this year, as well! Our new Music Technology class (a pilot program) is working towards creating/composing digital music (loops/beats) to be featured at this year’s Read and Fly event in April. There are 30 students currently enrolled in private music lessons at Mulvey this year for piano, ukulele, and guitar. Our new Orff ensemble and Ukulele band are working towards performances in May, too.
Looking ahead to February, students will have the opportunity to transfer their existing skills to learn about the blues and R’n’B music, learn the note names on the treble clef, and compose their own pieces of music.
