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Music is a Science
It is exact, specific: it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score
is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume change,
melody and harmony all at once with the most exact control of time.
Music is Mathematical
It is rythmatically 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, French, and the notation is certainly
not in English but in a lighly developed kind of short hand that uses symbols
to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complex and universal
language.
Music is History
Music ussually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even
the country or racial feeling.
Music is Physical Education
It requires fantastic coordination of the fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks,
and facial muscles which respond instantly to the sound the ears hear 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 techniques and use them to create
emotion. That is the one thing that science cannot duplicate: humanism, emotion,
call it what you will.