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2017
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Does Playing an Instrument
Make you Smarter?
Why I Teach Music at the Piano
Music is a science. It is exact, specific: and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most 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; 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 times of its creation, often reflecting events of its country of origin.
Music is physical education. It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, wrists, arms, torso and pedal foot, in addition to extraordinary control of the amount of pressure needed to present sounds ranging from soft to loud, connection or separation of tones, and grouping into phrases of varying lengths, 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 difficult movements and use them to express emotion. These are things science cannot duplicate:
Humanism Feeling Emotion Passion
I teach music at the piano so my students will recognize beauty; so they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world; so they will really learn to listen to themselves and others; so they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good - in short, more of the riches of life.
Music is a science. It is exact, specific: and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most 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; 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 times of its creation, often reflecting events of its country of origin.
Music is physical education. It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, wrists, arms, torso and pedal foot, in addition to extraordinary control of the amount of pressure needed to present sounds ranging from soft to loud, connection or separation of tones, and grouping into phrases of varying lengths, 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 difficult movements and use them to express emotion. These are things science cannot duplicate:
Humanism Feeling Emotion Passion
I teach music at the piano so my students will recognize beauty; so they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world; so they will really learn to listen to themselves and others; so they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good - in short, more of the riches of life.