We had, in retrospect, a phenomenal musical exposure.
Mom an Italian national, had the Met on each Saturday. Opera Noon to four. Musicals abounded in our houses and everyone knew every word of all the musicals from King and I to Mary Poppins, to South Pacific. The crooners were popular, Como, Sinatra, Crosby as well as others and duos. Technique and form were much admired. Dad loved the big bands and we listened to their music and that introduced us to Jazz.
School exposed us to patriotic songs. early American Music by Foster and others and the Sousa collections as well as high mass Latin hymns all four verses, and carols, in four parts. We also listened to symphonies, operas and went twice a year to the local symphony hall for an opera or symphony after studying it and its composer. Everyone, not just the high end kids.
We had incredible early and middle ages music in church, and there was always classical music on the various stations.
Rock stations in the sixties and into the early seventies played a variety of music from rock and roll to light classical, to folk, to religious. Our Father Who Art in Heaven, sung by a nun made it to the top of the charts in the late sixties.
Musicians like Jethro Tull who was classically trained made rock charts. Interesting times.
I tried to give my homeschooled children my varied musical experiences and to a degree succeeded. The children find that no one except the occasional homeschool kid has that sort of depth of music experience. Even the music majors.
Pity. We have a pretty incredible history of great music from all parts of western civ. I have played with the idea of pulling together a homeschoolers music curriculum.
That might be interesting and useful.
My experience is similar but my big gap is opera.
Heck - a lot of adults (ahem) might be interested!