"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Andersen
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Music is many different things to different people. It is a way people can express himself or herself. Having music in schools allows students to explore and experience something different and unusual. Music can take on many forms. For example music is a science. 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. Music is also mathematical, historical, a foreign language, and could be part of physical education. Most of all music is art. It allows students to take dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. Emotion and feeling is one thing science cannot duplicate.
By exposing students to music doesn’t mean that they all need to major in music and become classically trained, but music is something that students face every day. If you think about it, music is hard to ignore. As teachers we need to help our students feel this emotion and feeling. We need to let them experience all that music has to offer.
