This component is about learning how music fits into different cultures, time periods, and settings. You’ll listen to and study a variety of music styles , from classical to folk, pop, jazz, and world music. The goal is to understand how music reflects the society it comes from and how it has changed over time.

In this topic, you will:

• Listen to and analyze music from different countries, cultures, and historical periods.
• Explore unfamiliar media, stimuli and techniques
• Research composers, artists, or specific music traditions, and write about how they connect to their cultural or social context.
• Reflect on how your personal experiences and background influence the way you understand and make music.
• Extract musical information from the music examples studied in order to identify the purpose and use of musical structures, creating conventions, performing practices and techniques.
• Investigate how music is made and performed in different contexts
• Develop aural awareness of musical devices and musical elements, such as melody, harmony, texture, tonality, structure, articulation and dynamics.