Coming Soon to Olympia - Music Appreciation Dual Credit To Be Offered

By Jon Crawford, OHS Torch Reporter

This coming fall, Olympia will offer a Music Appreciation class, if enough students register; this class will help students understand different cultures by getting in the minds of great music composers.

“I am hoping this class will help kids feel what it felt like to live during these different time periods,” said Mrs. Debbie Aurelius-Muir.

Mrs. AM, the soon to be teacher of this class, said she hopes this class will help students to “travel through time.” She hopes this class will open up new perspective of music for her students.

This course is designed to provide familiarity with the elements of music and with various music forms so students can listen and appreciate music from different time periods.

This class will mainly look at Western European classical music. For this class the only homework students will have is to listen to music.

“You’ll find out the history and become more open-minded about music,” is what potential student of this class, Josh Kaminski, an OHS junior, had to say about this class.

Josh hopes this class cover the history of the evolution of music. He also said he hopes this class covers more recent popular artists.

Music Appreciation is a dual - credit class and fulfills 3 of the 9 semester hours of credit in Humanities/ Fine Arts required of the A.A. and A.S. degree which should be transferable to any college. This class is for students not planning on taking a music major.