IMR-Inter-Active Music Recognition: This course is designed to challenge the curiosity of the younger students and involve them actively in the music making process. Using the NYC Blueprint for the arts students will learn to distinguish the characteristics of various musical pieces by listening to and then imitating different sounds. Listening to music requires attention, order and auditory memory. The child can be helped to develop an awareness of sequences of sound and the patterns this creates. This program allows your students to experience the various musical ingredients that make up the world of sound: Beat or pulse, Rhythm, Melody, Structure, Harmony, and Expression. Children will use their musical imaginations through speaking, singing, moving and composing.  It serves as an introduction to what will be a life long love of music.
Recommended for Grades PreK-1

Song Flutes: In planning musical activities, we offer workshops that are age appropriate. Woodwind instruments work by covering air holes. The Song Flute is designed for little hands. Our lessons are geared towards teaching students how to play an instrument and how to begin to read music. Following the NYC Blueprint for the Arts we introduce musical expression, rhythmic patterns and tempo.
Recommended for Grade 1 & 2

Recorder Program: The Recorder is the precursor to the family of Woodwinds and Brass. We have designed this course in alignment with the NYC Blueprint for the Arts as an introduction that provides the basic skills needed to play an instrument. Consider the use of the recorder for teaching reading, as preparation for the orchestral winds. Learning fingering creates dexterity. Learning to read music teaches focus and discipline. Playing and performing songs creates a level of self-confidence second to none. Our program also looks at the different styles of music that are played with the Recorder, from Baroque to World Music. Originally designed for the younger students, we have found students in all grades to be enthusiastic players, and we have found that certain pieces in the repertoire are quite challenging.
Recommended for Grades 2-8

School Band: Playing a musical instrument is a wonderful way for a student to develop discipline through daily practice; respect and responsibility when caring for an instrument; the ethic of teamwork when working with other students; and an overall sense of accomplishment and self-confidence through performance. 144 Music and Arts Inc. is devoted to creating and maintaining bands in all age groups. Following the NYC Blueprint, students will develop more formal skills in regards to performing and creating music. Our Teaching Artists instruct beginning, intermediate, and advanced Marching Band, Jazz Band, Popular Music Ensembles, as well as other performance oriented musical groups. We can organize your school band. This includes auditioning students, assisting in the ordering musical instruments, and related materials (i.e.: reeds, strings, sheet music, manuscript paper, music stands, etc.)
Recommended for Grades 3-8

Strings Program: We are now offering a strings program for all age groups. The first step in creating a strings ensemble is to acquire the skills needed to play the Violin. Utilizing violins, violas, cellos and basses in all sizes allows us the flexibility to create an ensemble that is truly representative of the entire student body. As with any musical discipline, respect, responsibility and teamwork lead to a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. The viola, cello and bass are added the second year. Recommended for Grades 2-8

Ukulele Program: Ukulele fever may again be infiltrating the American culture. To date over nine million Ukuleles have been sold. This unique cheerful instrument is a wonderful introduction to our strings program. Performing music with this four stringed instrument helps students to become familiar with the string family and to begin†an expressive musical experience and is a great way to start in the early grades!
Recommended for Grade 3 & 4

Guitar Lab: The guitar was created for enjoyment, to ease loneliness and as a courting instrument. Today, every child dreams of being a rock star. This class offers old and new styles of music through the playing of traditional and electric guitars. An important function of music is its use as a form of expression and social communication. Performing with the guitar has its own special satisfactions and rewards.
Recommended for Grades 3-8

Keyboard, Hands On: The keyboard has strings, which are hit so that this is both a stringed instrument and a percussion instrument. This program highlights such musical skills as music reading, correct playing techniques, improvisation, and performance. Keyboard skills are a great way to teach discipline, rhythm, focus, dexterity, math, physics and song structure in a group setting.
Recommended for Grades 2-8

Vocal Workshops and Choir: Singing is the most intimate way for children to make music and to express themselves through music. Their voice is their own personal instrument. Developing singing skills is important because singing provides a direct way to experience and learn about music. Following the NYC Blueprint for the Arts, students will focus on expression, breathing, posture and tone quality. Singing is also a useful social skill. Equally important is the special bond that develops between the adult and the children as they share music together. Singing requires the coordination of several different sets of muscles and thought processes. The ability to sing songs takes time, experience and maturation.
Recommended for Grades 1-8

Musical Theater: Music has accompanied theater since the beginning of Western drama. In the twentieth century, adding popular music to theater resulted in the Broadway musicals. In musical theater, music is the key element. Music helps to communicate theme, mood, action, character and setting. Our emphasis in this program is showing students the How of using your voice effectively through quality, pitch, volume and cue. Students will also learn the special language of musical theater, characterization, blocking, and the rules of stage movement. Students will be involved interpreting and analyzing lyrics and composition.
Recommended for Grades 2-8

Bookmaking: This course uses an interdisciplinary, interactive approach, combining the NYC Blueprint for the Arts as well as Creative Writing Standards, the Visual Arts Standards and the Applied Learning Standards.  Bookmaking is a process in which students are shown how effectively art can function as a means of communication.  The goal of this workshop is to make students creation achievable and to expand their application by combining the basic techniques of bookmaking skills and creative writing ideas.  Students select words for communicating an idea and then are encouraged to explore the concept of arranging words and illustrations within a given space.  Students are encouraged to write their own stories, poems, essays etc.  Each participant will design and execute his/her own book.  This program can also be linked to the Applied Learning Standards and can serve as an Exit Project because students can be guided to research it, write it, design it, defend it and display it.
Recommended for Grades 2-5. Will modify for grade 1

Mural Design: During this residency students will increase their visual awareness as they learn to identify subtle visual qualities in natural and constructed environment and artworks. This is an interdisciplinary learning unit in which students create a series of panels in conjunction with a theme. In many cases the sketches and drawings of the students produces new information upon which students can expand their knowledge. Lessons about innovative and traditional art reinforce the concept of art as a living heritage. Students will create art based on imagination, recall, observation and research. They will portray detail, depict action and express non-verbal messages.
Recommended for all grades depending on the size and theme of the piece.

Photography: Picture It! 144 Music and Arts Inc aims to point students in new directions and to promote better understanding of our environment. The students participating in this†class will learn all the techniques from the taking of photographs to the making of photographs. This workshop will take the students through the basic understanding of the photographic process of light exposing an image on to film to the basic understanding of the parts of a camera and how these parts affect the pictures we take. Furthermore students will learn the fundamentals of developing and printing. There is nothing negative about this workshop. (A darkroom facility is necessary) Remember, “A Picture is Worth 1000 Words!"
Recommended for grades 4-8. Must have a full lab in operation.

Dance: Our dance workshops are designed to give students dance forms in formal and informal contexts. Students will be given the opportunity to improvise, create and perform dances based on formal techniques as well as their own movement ideas. Performance elements that demonstrate a high level of expression, dynamics and phrasing will be emphasized. Students will also learn dances from other cultures and be able to recognize their functions in diverse settings.
Recommended for all Grades

Making Connections

Social Studies through Music: In our global society music reflects sounds from many different cultures. Music has a history that has evolved through a blending of different styles. This program allows your students to make connections to other times, places and people. Music has always been an important part of the lives of all people and cultures. Our scope and sequence has been aligned to the Social Studies curriculum for grades 6, 7 and 8. We trace the history of music from the earliest medieval works to today’s composing and performing. Time lines are created and connections are reinforced. Students explore the diversity and creativity of musical traditions, they become musical explorers.
Recommended for grades 6-8

Music and Math: We have developed a concept and skills approach aligned to, 7 and 8th grade mathematics. This program will explore the curriculum using the languages of both music and mathematics. We will link symbols, notations, formulas, patterns and computations to achieve solutions. We will trace the areas of musical subject matter through Percussion instruments appropriate for students in middle grades through improvisational activities and instrumental sound. In planning this link we realize the need to provide activities through which students learn to conceptualize and to think in the language of mathematics.
Recommended for grades 6-8

Music/Math & Design: The program's main focus is to show students how "every design starts out on paper."  The students become the design team.  Working primarily with designing percussion instruments, we break down the design process into its various components.  Various concepts such as area, perimeter, volume, surface area, pitch, and density are explored in their relationship to designing instruments.  We bring in various drums from all over the world, play them, analyze their properties and work 'backwards' to imagine what it would have looked like on paper, before it became a real product.  This reinforces the experience of how ideas are generated, and refined for practical purposes.  Furthermore, by looking at costs, profit, product market, and green (environmentally friendly) design, students gain insight into how real-life products may also be produced. 
Since the primary goal involves percussion instruments, a secondary goal of the course, depending on the length of the course, is to explain the mathematics behind counting beats, measures, time-signatures, and to also introduce students to musical pitch and their mathematical relationships.
Recommended for Grades 6-8

The Design of the Exit Project: Ensuring the implementation of a rigorous curriculum in line with the state standards and the goals of the exit projects, we have developed a residency program providing skills-based arts instruction aligned with the Social Studies and Science requirements. This program helps teachers and students incorporate arts based strategies into the core study units. Our teaching artists will work with your teachers and students to plan lessons based on research and investigation. Students will design and construct a product that fulfills the Exit Project requirements.      Recommended for Exit Projects