Why Is Music Important to you?
Why is music important in your life and in the world as a whole?
Top 7 Reasons Music is important
1. Music is a universal language: It inspires common human feelings and bridges, gaps, between cultures that spoken languages cannot. It brings people together and creates a universal community.
2. Music Inspires and Evokes Emotion in a Healthy Way: It touches our emotional being and evokes moods and feelings that are sometimes difficult to express. It can change a difficult mood and make it happy or excited; It can change a light mood and take it deeper and more profound.
3. Music enhances learning and makes it more enjoyable: It is scientifically proven that music enhances brainfunctioning. Playing music uses many brain functions simultaneously: Motor Control, Hearing, Sight, Memory, etc.
4. Music Creates Ambiance: You can use music in any environment to enhance what is already there. Consider the difference between a party with no music and one without a sporting event, or a move, or a restaurant, or driving a car.
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5. Music is Spiritual: Music is of the spirit and inspirational to the spirit. All religions use music to help express spiritual values and all religions use music to uplift the spirit.
6. Music spark s the imagination: it invokes mental imagery and inner scenery that opens the mind to amazing insight and spans the distance between the stars.
7. Music is a Simple Pleasure: All it takes is your ears and your imagination.
What is Music?
Music is a Science
It is:
- Exact
- Specific
-Demands exact acoustics
A conductor's full score is a chart. A graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony and all at once and with the exact control of time.
Music is Mathematical
It 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.
The Notation is certainly NOT English
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 times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feeling
music is physical education
Music requires fantastic coordination of
1.fingers,
2. hands
3. arms
4. lip,
5. cheek; and
6. facial muscles
in addition to extraordinary control of diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all of those things but music is art
Music allows a human being to:
Take all of these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion
That is one thing that science CANNOT duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
Why is music taught?
Not because we expect our students to major in music.
Not because we expect them to play or sing all their life
Not so they can relax
Not so they can have fun
BUT
So they will be human.
They will recognize beauty
Be Sensitive
Something to cling to.
More love, compassion, gentleness, good
More Life.
Why Is Music Important to you?
By jenniferdawnwalsh
