Tourtellotte Memorial High School Music Department.

Tourtellotte Memorial High School offers a comprehensive music experience in which students are afforded various music learning opportunities. Students who like to perform can do so through various choral groups and band ensembles. Those who love to dance, will find performance opportunities in Show Choir. We offer beginning classes in guitar and piano, as well as classes in music history, vocal studies and music technology.

Welcome to the TMHS Music Department web site! We are so excited for the up-coming year and are looking forward to a more technology integrated experience. This year, we are hoping to link all notices sent home with music students on a "Important News" page. This way parents or student who are out sick or who have just lost thier handouts, can look on-line to find them there!

Also on this page, you will see important updates, but don't foget to check the links on the left often for more detailed information. Things like homework pages, concert schedules, forms, funraising info. and more can be accessed there.

We are again going to be transitioning the band program with the hiring of a new Director. More information will be forthcoming.

The chorus will be requesting permission to travel again this year with a proposed trip to ???????

We will need to do A LOT of fundraising this year in order to travel. We will also be looking for more parents to volunteer their time and services within the Music Department. There is no better way to show your support of your performing student than to make it all possible behind the scenes! We thank you in advance for that support.

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Music Department Philosophy

The Arts are universal forms of expression necessary to the understanding to nature, human nature, and their relationship to humanity. We believe music is a unique form of communication through which students can express themselves and understand the expression of others. Music education provides opportunities for students to observe, listen, create, and to recreate perceptions, ideas and feelings.
Thompson Public Schools recognize that, in an ever-changing cultural and technological world, students must be enriched through the study of music in order to gain and understanding and appreciation of life. Arts education is a key component for the development of the total child. It is the medium through which students can learn, understand, and value other cultures, as well as participate in and contribute to their own. Finally, it is through Arts education that artistic intelligence is developed so that informed aesthetic choices can be made, and the individual can enjoy a lifetime of varied musical experiences.