Posted on 06/30/2019 6:09:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Well then having musical should open the door and grease the skids for all those who want a major in Interpretive Afro-Haitian Dance. We ALL know how in demand majors in that field of study are.
Good on the “researchers” then, schools should have robust music programs.
It is indeed. Everything in life, especially in music is about math. Drumming, which I used to do is all timing.
Music in a technical sense is not mere rhythm or chanting obscene rhymes. Now the old time jazz and blues players DID have considerable musical talent - but they also were by and large better educated than the average today.
The close relationship between music and math goes all the way back to medieval times. The original universities taught first the Trivium - logic (to reason), grammar (the vocabulary to express your reasoning), and rhetoric (the means of arguing your reasoning). But graduates went on to the Quadrivium . . . which was math, geometry, music, and astronomy. All based on numbers and ratios.
That curriculum gave rise to all of Western music, and some of the best composers were also mathematicians. For example, the greatest composer England produced until Tallis and Byrd was John Dunstable (or Dunstaple), who went to France with the Duke of Bedford to the Hundred Years' War and jump-started the entire Burgundian School. He was also a mathematician and astronomer - his epitaph is quite impressive -
"Enclosed in this tomb is he who enclosed Heaven in his breast, John Dunstable, companion of the stars. Through his judgement, Astronomy opened the secrets of the heavens. This man was your glory, your light, your prince, O Music; and one who has spread your sweet arts throughout the world. In the year 1453, on the day before Christ's birthday, he passes to the stars. May the citizens of Heaven receive him."
Really? Those who can do, those who can’t teach. Try taking a kid with a tin ear and teach to play a musical instrument. Good luck with it. Let me know how it works out.
Cheech and Chong - Jimmy
“Now the next one’s going through your kneecap!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P31Fj0O5RSQ
Still, It’s your opinion, not a fact.
I could say the same about your friends. I’ve seen people with no innate musical talent try and learn to play an instrument or sing and it was painful to listen to and to see in the kid. After a while they just gave up.
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School music programs are expensive.
“Free” music programs are wonderful ideas, but they should be funded through donations.
I understand your point. The way I see it, teaching a kid at a very young age, when they are learning language, by surrounding them with good music is a theory that I have seen work
Americans wait until a kid is trying to socialize after school to sit them down with a stuffy teacher. It’s too late
Exposing a newborn to classical music is never a bad idea but there are solid theories that state this is very helpful to their overall development
Making an elementary age kid who is not good at or is not interested in music perform is abusive and unnecessary
Music does not have to be performed in front of an audience
The Latin inscription on their college diplomas is translated as, “You want fries with that?”
At my high school, stage band was the only extracurricular activity that turned a profit.
I don’t know why it would be expensive. The parents bought the instruments - the band director earned a salary but no more than any other teacher.
Football was a huge money loser.
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Sorry, don’t buy it. Maybe it’s skewed because Asians tend to always take those classes. Or maybe is simply PURE BS, which would be par for the APA.
Learning music makes sense if you are interested in it and can hear the nuances of sound. I was not interested in it, and my hearing has always been less than nominal (passed every hearing test, but cannot pick up the nuances).
I was extremely good at math and history, but had a hard time in English and was useless in music (I was kid played the triangle.).
It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties that it was discovered that I really don't hear the nuances. Inflection and accents aren't lost, just not very clear.
I am not addressing the idea of pushing a kid to do what they don’t want to do. I mean that it is such a waste that parents don’t put on good music when the child is an infant and into preschool years.
My guess is that being good in math is directly correlated with being good in tonal languages, e.g., Chinese.
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