Why Learn Music?

Music is Science...

It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, or a graph, which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once with the most exact control of time.

Music is Mathematics...

It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

Music is 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 and universal language.

Music is History...

Music reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and cultural feeling.

Music is Physical Education...

It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of 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, technical, and difficult techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: Humanism, Feeling, and Emotion.

THAT IS WHY I TEACH MUSIC

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