We Teach Music. But Why?

Not because we expect you to major in music

Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life

Not just for fun

You will be human

You will recognize beauty

You will be sensitive

You will be closer to infinity beyond this world

You will have something to cling to, skills to enjoy for a lifetime

You will have more love, compassion, gentleness; in short, a richer life

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Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?

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It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, a graph that indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

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It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

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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 complex and universal language.

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Music usually reflects the environment and time of its creation, as well as the country, climate and national feelings.

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It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles.~ The mind interprets and the body responds instantly to the visual sight of the musical notation and the sound the ear hears.

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It allows a human being to take complex techniques and use them to create emotion.

That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, and emotion.Author unknown