Students will explore a musical culture examined in class in more detail or will explore a musical culture not included in class. Students will understand quantitative problems. Students will be exposed to the role of musical notation in various cultures. Students will describe the role of notation in various musical cultures. Students will be able to use a computer.
Students are willing to receive information and respond to it.
Students willingness to receive information and respond to it will be enhanced by the variety of musical cultures explored in the class. Students will be exposed to popular music, Western art music, Native American music, North American music, Latin-American music, African music, Asian music, Middle Eastern music, and European folk music all as means of stimulating students to respond to this diverse stimuli. Students develop values, organize them into systems, and apply those systems to their private and public lives. Students will explore world musical heritages as a means of refining their own values, organizing their values into systems, and applying those systems of to their private and public lives. Students will synthesize and state reasons for and values of learning about world music heritage.