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Welcome to the Bluefield Music Department Website!

Why Learn Music?

Music is Science

It is exact and specific;  it demands precise acoustics and sound frequencies.  

A musical score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once with the most consistent control of time.

Music is Mathematical

It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously.

Music is a Foreign Language

Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French.

Music notation is a highly developed shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas.  

The semantics of music is the most complete universal language.

Music is Social Studies

Many songs we study represent other cultures and their traditions.

Music is a direct reflection of the historical context and trends from when it was written.

Music is Physical Education

It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmic, back, stomach and chest muscles.  

Music is a team sport, to be successful it requires us to work well with others and take responsibility for our personal contributions.

Music is Art

It allows human beings to take all of these dry, technically difficult techniques and create emotion.  

Making art helps us connect to that which makes us human, our feelings.