Benefits from learning to read and play music
How will your child benefit from learning to read and play music?Music is a Science It is exact and specific. It demands exact acoustics. A conductor?s score is a chart, a graph that indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once with the most exact control of time.
Music is Mathematical Music 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 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 environment and the times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is Physical Education It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks, facial muscles in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, abdominal 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 these dry technically boring (however, difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is the one thing science cannot duplicate. It allows you to be human, to recognize and to be sensitive.