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 encour...

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...one be capable of accomplishing what just one musical composition can

communicate when we teach our children to appreciate music. With all available forms of

communication, one should never forget that listening carefully to music--as we should listen to others

speak--can clarify the true meanings of all languages.

We should all strive to include intuition and intellect into language of any form. Intellect enlarges

our range of instincts through newly absorbed information and enables us to reflect and analyze all forms of

language. If communication is the purpose for language, we must then realize that speech is not the only

form of communication, for life without smiles, hugs, sign language, and even music would be very

unfulfilling. We must continue to educate our children in the musical arts and teach them yet another form

of communication.

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