Music is science.
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics.
Music is math.
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into
fractions.
Music is foreign language.
Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French.
Music is history.
It reflects the environment and times of its creation.
Music is physical education.
It requires coordination of fingers, hands, arms, and lips
as well as facial, diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles.
Most of all, music is art.
It allows a human being to take all of these techniques and
use them to create emotion.
Why teach music?
Not so our students will become musicians. Not because we
expect them to play or sing all their life. Not so they can have fun. But so
they will be human. So they’ll recognize beauty. So they’ll be sensitive. So
they’ll have something to cling to. So they’ll have more love, more compassion,
more gentleness; in short, more life. - Tim Lautzenheiser
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