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Why I Teach Music!
Music is a Science
It is exact, specific, and demands exact acoustics. A conductor's
score is a chart, a graph, indicating frequencies, intensities,
volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once with the most exact
control of time.
Music is
Mathematical
It is thematically 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 are 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 a most
complex and universal language.
Music is History
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often
even the country and or racial feeling of the times.
Music is Physical
Education
It requires coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek,
and facial muscles, in addition to the 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 an Art
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but
difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing
science cannot duplicate; human feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is why I teach
Music
Not because I expect you to major in music. Not because I expect you to
play or sing all your life. Not so you can relax or have fun. BUT..so
you will be human, you will recognize beauty, you will be sensitive, you
will be closer to an infinite beyond the world, you will have something
to cling to, you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness,
more good...in short, so you will have more life. Of what value will it
be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
THAT IS WHY I
TEACH YOU MUSIC!
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