WHY TEACH MUSIC?
Music is a science
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's score
is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume
changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact
control of time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which
must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is
certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses
symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete
universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even
the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks,
and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the
diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to
the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is art
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but
difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing
science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!
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Music is a science
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's score
is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume
changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact
control of time.
Music is mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which
must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is
certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses
symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete
universal language.
Music is history
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even
the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks,
and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the
diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to
the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is art
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but
difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing
science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!
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