Music In Education
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Music In Education
Music in education is essential to our children because it increases their listening skills and
is a common method of communication for cultures worldwide. Music is Education There
are schools attempting to eliminate teaching musical arts to our children. The board of
education claims they must provide education by concentrating on the basic academic
courses, but what they don't realize is that music is a major part of basic education. We
must not allow them to pull the teaching of music out of our school curriculums because
music is an essential form of communication. Our children do not have to be fluent in the
arts to receive the value of broad exposure to the different musical dialogues. Deprivation
of a very valuable part of education occurs if we do not teach them to appreciate a wide
variety of music. Metaphorically speaking, we often associate the terms language and
grammar with the term music. This association leads us to believe that music is a form of
language, possibly because no symbol system other than language has the same potential
as music of infinite productivity and precision. It takes a multitude of directions and
phonetic-type symbolism to produce a pleasant sounding musical composition. This relates
very closely to the requirements of everyday language. The primary objective of any
spoken language is to convey a person's thoughts in a comprehensible fashion, but we
must remember that everyone thinks and comprehends everything differently. Musical
language contains vast quantities of words to help people understand how original
composers intended to play a specific piece. Musical language also has directions that
allow and encourage some scope of original interpretation and minor departures from the
written score, resulting in no two performances sounding exactly alike. The English
language, as we know it, carries a very strong parallel to these same interpretable words.
Dialect and slang are just two of the many connotative forms to speak different languages.
All languages contain these variations and reinforce the need for striving toward
understanding a basically generic language. It would be very difficult to speak to a
non-English speaking person and clearly convey a message unless both persons were
familiar with basic terminology. It would be just as unlikely to communicate a musical
message to someone not educated or interested in musical interpretation. The term music
in itself has many different connotation...
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