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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 mathematical
It is rhythmically 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 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 history
Music usually reflects the environments and times of it's creation, often even the
country and, or racial feeling.
Music is a physical education
It requires coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek, and facial muscles, in
addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest
muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is art
It allows a human being to take all these techniques and use them to create emotion
(the one thing that science will never duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it
what you will.
