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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Why We Teach Music...
Why We Teach Music
From the Spring, 1998 issue of Da Capo, the Delaware ACDA Newsletter
Music is a science:
it is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is a foreign language:
most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English-but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is mathematical:
it is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is history:
music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is physical education:
it requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all of these things, but most of all...
Music is art:
it allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: feelings, emotion. . . call it what you will.
That is why we teach music!
Not because we expect you to major in music.
Not because we expect you to play or sing all of your life.
Not so you can relax.
Not so you can have fun.
BUT
- so you will be human
- so you will recognize beauty
- so you will be sensitive
- so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
- so you will have something to cling to
- so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more goodness in short - more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live.
That is why we teach music! [Author unknown]
From the Spring, 1998 issue of Da Capo, the Delaware ACDA Newsletter
Music is a science:
it is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is a foreign language:
most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English-but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is mathematical:
it is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is history:
music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is physical education:
it requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all of these things, but most of all...
Music is art:
it allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: feelings, emotion. . . call it what you will.
That is why we teach music!
Not because we expect you to major in music.
Not because we expect you to play or sing all of your life.
Not so you can relax.
Not so you can have fun.
BUT
- so you will be human
- so you will recognize beauty
- so you will be sensitive
- so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
- so you will have something to cling to
- so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more goodness in short - more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live.
That is why we teach music! [Author unknown]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Welcome to Gubser Choir '08-'09 School Year!
1. Choir meets every Wednesday and Friday mornings before school at 8 a.m.!
2. Band students and 2nd year orchestra students start coming to choir next week! October 15th will be their first day of choir.
3. Calendar items: Tuesday, December 9th at 7 p.m. in the gym- Winter Concert; Thursday, December 18th 10:00 a.m. field trip to the Capitol Building- sing at 10:30
4. I will be sending home t-shirt order forms the first week of November. The logo is the same each year, so siblings and neighbors can pass them down to new generations of choir kids!!! I hope that every choir member can order one to wear on our fieldtrip in December, to our Keizer Iris Festival performance and to wear at our final concert. They can also be worn on Gubser Spirit Fridays or whenever else you want to wear them! I have a few "loaner" shirts if you are unable to purchase one. The cost will be $10. Donations of shirts from years past are happily accepted to be added to our loaner supply!
Holly Albertson
Thursday, June 12, 2008
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