The standards for High School Music enable students to use critical thinking skills to study and apply advanced musical concepts in a variety of classroom structures (e.g., Music Technology, Music Appreciation, Music History/Literature, Independent Study, Piano Lab, etc.) apart from traditional ensemble settings. Students develop skills in reading and understanding a variety of musical notations. Students develop, improvise, draft, refine, and share music ideas. Students respond to, describe, interpret, and evaluate music and explore music from a variety of cultural influences, styles, composers, and historical periods. They examine relationships of music to other fine arts and to other fields of knowledge, and explore connections between music skills and college, career, and workplace skills.