Why Music?

Music is a science. It is exact, specific and 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 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 in music are in Italian, German or French. 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 at times of its creation, and often discussing and showing the country in which it originated and its cultures.

Music is physical education. Music requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, and facial muscles which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears an the mind interprets.

Muisc is all of these things, but most of all: Music is art. It allows a human being to take all these dry techniques and use them to create emotions. That is something that science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, and emotion.

Music is taught in schools– Not because you are expected to be a music major, or to play/sing all of your life, or to just have fun. Music is taught in schools so you will be a human, recognize beauty, be a well rounded person, have something to relate to, to have more compassion and gentleness.