Why+Teach+Music?

//**Music is a science**// It is exact, specific and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph that indicates frequencies, ontensities, volumme changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact contol of time. It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions that 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 and universal language. //**Music is history**// Music usually reflects the enviornment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or ethnic feeling. //**Music is physical education**// It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks and facial muscles, inaddition 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 of these techniques and use them to create emotion. That is the one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will. //**That is why we teach music!**// Not because we expect you to major in music Not because we expect you to play of sing all your life Not so you can relax Not so you can have fun BUT So you will be human So you will recognize beauty So you will be sensitive So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world So you will have something to cling to So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good - in short more life Of what value will it be to make a properous living unless you know how to live!
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 * //That is why we teach music!//**