Foreman High School – Music in World Culture

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course is designed for students with any or no experience learning about and performing music. This course builds students' knowledge of music as an art form while exploring and demonstrating music styles of selected cultures or historical periods. Students will analyze, evaluate and perform music of different genres representing cultures or time periods. Additionally, this course will focus student learning on the peoples, ideas, and forces that have shaped our world through the lens of music and performance. It will allow students to appreciate the rich music cultures that exist across the world. This course will advance through a combination of content knowledge, inquiry, and appropriate analytical skills in a literacy-rich fashion. These thematic investigations will include an emphasis on interdisciplinary social sciences and build understanding of cultural, institutional, economic, and technological patterns that, along with geography, have set the human stage.