Why do we study Music ?. Music is.. Art ScienceMath Foreign Language Physical education History

Why do we study Music ?

Music is ..

Art

ScienceMath

Foreign Language

Physical education

History

Music is a Science ...

• It is exact, specific.

• It demands exact acoustics.

Music is a Science ...

• A conductor's full score is like a chart that indicates

• all at once and with the most exact control of time.

frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony.

Music is mathematical ...

• It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions.

• It must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

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Music is mathematical ...

• Notice how the division of a whole note is like fractions in math.

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•The rhythms of the boompipe follow a mathematical 1-2-3-4 pattern.

Music as a language ...

• The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.

George Harrison and Ravi Shankar – music has no boundaries.

Music is a foreign language ...

• The notation is a highly developed shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas.

Music is a foreign language ...

• Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French.

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allegro VivacePresto

Forte

Music is history ...

Music usually reflects

• the environment and times of its creation,

• often even the country and/or cultural feeling.

Music is history ...

Music is physical education ...

It requires

• coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles.

• control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles.

• all of which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.

Opera Singers carry notes that seem to last forever. How do they do it?

Using …..

•Breath control – careful regulation of the airstream escaping from the lungs.

and

•Resonance in the vocal tract.

Breath control – music IS physical ed

• The opera singer first flattens the diaphragm ,to get maximum expansion of the lungs.

• While exhaling, she uses her diaphragm control to ration the air so she can hold her notes longer.

Resonance – Music IS a science

• Sound amplifies in the cavities of the human vocal tract due to resonance.

• Resonance allows singers to sing loudly without exhaling much air.

• That’s why a trained singer can sing at full volume without producing a flicker in the flame of a candle held in front of his mouth.

Music develops insight and demands research ...

Music is all these things, but most of all,

Music is art ...

• It allows a human being to take all these, dry, technically boring, difficult techniques and use them to create emotion.

• That is one thing science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion.

Why does some music give you goose bumps?• Music stirs up different emotions – sadness, happiness,

nostalgia,fear etc.

• All emotions stimulate a part of the brain called the hypothalamus.

• The hypothalamus sends messages through the nerves to contract muscles in the skin – the result, the hair-on-end sensation of goosebumps.

So, what is music?

Is birdsong music?

How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door?

Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum?

Music is a part of living

Music...A Part Of living...

• Music is inherent in the very nature of man.

• The tiny infant will often respond to a rhythmic sound, beginning to hum even before speaking.

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• Rhythm and music abound in nature all around us. Music is in us as well

• The wood wren sings the first four notes of Beethoven’s fifth symphony. How did that happen?


• It's an ability inherent in every child, simply awaiting development.

• Unfortunately some children may never know the joys of creating their own music.

• To be denied that opportunity is to forfeit this natural means of self expression.

And, Music is fun !

• Fun to learn

• Fun to listen to

• Fun to create

Did you know ?...

Pythagoras - Greek philosopher/Mathematician/Musician Albert Einstein – Physicist/Violinist

• When children study music in school , they improve their reading, spelling, and math skills.

Did you know ?...


• Students taking music courses scored an average of 20 to 40 points higher on both verbal and math portions of the SAT’s.

Did you know ?...


• Students who participate in their school band are 52% more likely to graduate from college.

• A recent study showed that music students have the highest rate of admittance to medical schools.

Above all, Music –


• Is creative and advances learning ability.

• Builds self confidence.

• Is a form of beauty.

• Has lifetime value.

• Enhances social development.

Albert Einstein on music

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music .... I get most joy in life out of music.”

Albert Einstein on music (When asked about his theory of relativity)

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition.My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

And finally ….did you know ….?


• Albert Einstein played the violin.

• Pythagoras was a musician.

• Tchaikovsky was a mathematician.

• Leonardo da Vinci also wrote music.

• Nixon and Truman were pianists.

• Clinton plays the saxophone.

• Alan Greenspan plays the saxophone and the clarinet.

• Stephen King plays the guitar.

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