Music Advocacy
Research studies have shown the following:
- The arts are one of the six subject areas in which the College Board recognizes are essential in order to thrive in college. The arts play a part in children's intellectual development.
- Students taking courses in music performance and music appreciation scored higher in the SAT. Music students receive more academic honors and awards.
- Music majors comprise the highest percentage of accepted medical students.
- Research made between music and intelligence concluded that music training is far greater than computer instruction in improving children's abstract reasoning skills.
- Playing music instruments activate regions of all four of the cortex lobes and parts of the cerebellum. Musicians also have larger planum temporale; the regions associated with reading skills.
- The arts are one of the six subject areas in which the College Board recognizes as essential in order to thrive in college.The arts produce jobs. They generate an estimate of $37 billion dollars.
- Arts education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate; the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence.
WHY IS MUSIC IMPORTANT IN OUR SCHOOLS?
Music Is Science
Music is exact, specific; it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph, which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with most exact control of time.
Music Is Mathematical
Music 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 that the students encounter in music are in German, Italian, or French; and the notation is certainly not in English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. Music is a complete and universal language.
Music Is History
Music almost always mirrors the time of its creation; often even the country and/or cultural feeling.
Music Is Physical Education
Music requires fantastic coordination of the fingers, hands, arms, facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ears hear and the mind interprets.
Music Is All These Things, But Most Of All,
Music Is Art!
Music allows us to take all of these techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one things that science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion.