When I was in school, the only accommodation I had was an interpreter and occasionally, closed captions or subtitles on videos if we had to watch them in class. I didn't have any notetakers. I didn't really need any back then though. Most of the time the teachers never expanded on anything beyond the notes they gave to the class and if they did, I could always read the textbooks or do research on the Internet. My memory and the difficulty level of my classes made it easy for me to just listen to my teacher, do my homework, and get As on the tests. Without much effort. Now for college, that is a different story though.
As for music history/music itself... I did have to take music history in middle school - the way my school did it, we alternated between music history and art classes in 6th and 7th grades. The 8th graders were required to take Home Ed and some completely different course in industrial technology instead. After that, in high school, we had more options. A lot of people did join choir/band but I never did. I didn't even have to be waived out of these classes because it wasn't mandatory for anyone - you could choose to take art classes or other classes instead if you didn't want to join band or choir. I crammed my schedule with lots of art courses because I thought I would major in art in college.
