Exploring Music

3 units

Exploring Music considers a vast range of music from across history, geography, and styles. The class will listen closely to musical sound and also consider the social, historical, economic, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual contexts within which music makes meaning for listeners. Students will learn to talk and write about music and also come to understand how musical works of art function in the era when they are made and after. No prior knowledge of music is needed. Topic changes from term to term--for current topic, refer to section listing.