WHY TEACH MUSIC

1. Music is a science: It is exact, specific and must be 100% correct.

2. Music is Mathematics: It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of
time in space into fractions which must be done instantaneously and
not worked out on paper.
3. Music is Language Arts: Music which is sung is literate and uses
Poetry to emphasize it. Many great literate figures have had their
writings put to music.
4. Music is History: It has always reflected the environment and times
of its creation-often to the country or racial make-up. The study of
music, its composers, and the events that occurred at that time, all
become a clearer blueprint in the evolution of societies.
5. Music is Social Studies: It has always had a major impact on cultural
society. If you listen to the music of a certain period of time in a
particular culture, the attitudes of the people at that time become
clearer. We begin to understand what they were thinking.
6. Music is Foreign Language: Most of the musical terms are in Italian,
German, and French. The notation of notes is certainly not English
but rather a highly developed kind of shorthand. Much great music
originated in Europe and these original languages are still utilized in
the communication of this music.
7. Music is Psychological: It evokes many different kinds of emotions. It
is often used in the therapeutic healing of those who are ill.
8. Music is Physical Education: It requires fantastic coordination of
fingers hands, arms, feet, lips cheeks, and facial muscles in addition
to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back, stomach and chest
muscles which must respond instantly to the sounds the ear hears and
the mind interprets.
9. Music is Vocational: The making of instruments either traditionally
by wood or electronically requires great skill and perfection. It too
must be 100% exact. Music is also big business, which requires the
ability to manage and finance its endeavors.
10. Music is all of these things, but most of all Music is Art: It allows a
human being to take all of these dry, technically boring (but
fantastically difficult) techniques and use them to CREATE
EMOTION!

We teach music, not because we expect one to major in music, not to

play music all ones’ life; not so one can relax; not so one can have
fun...but that one will be human, and recognize beauty, be sensitive, be
closer to an infinite beyond our world, have more love, more
compassion, more knowledge, more understanding, more gentleness,
more good... In short, more Life.

WHAT VALUE WILL IT BE TO MAKE A PROSPEROUS LIVING

UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW TO LIVE? THAT'S WHY WE TEACH
MUSIC!

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MUSIC LINKS!

Trumpeter's Fanfare
http://library.thinkquest.org/10693/
Interested in playing the trumpet, or just learning about it? This ThinkQuest site has lots
of tips for trumpet players, info on the history of this instrument, trumpet jokes, and
more.

Saxophones
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/pages/saxophone_gnrl.html
Read about the history of this wind instrument often used by jazz musicians.

Clarinet General Information

http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/pages/clrnt_gnrl.html
Brief description and history of this popular woodwind instrument, from the MHN
Instrument Encyclopedia.

Woodwind Central
http://baroque-music.com/wc/
Explore the magical world of woodwinds. This site includes definitions of the woodwind
family of instruments as well as some sound files.

World of the Band

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006865/
Get facts about the sounds and science behind the brass, woodwind, and percussion
instruments. From a ThinkQuest team.

San Francisco Symphony Kids' Site

http://www.sfskids.org/
Join the San Francisco Symphony and have fun with music. You can find out about
different instruments, learn about harmony and other musical terms, or try your hand at
composing.

http://www.dsokids.com/2001/instrumentchart.htm
Dallas Symphony Orchestra home page for kids.

http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml
New York Philharmonic home page for kids.

Playmusic
http://www.playmusic.org/
For children to explore different instruments, musicians, and kinds of classical music.
Includes sound clips.

Trumpet/cornet Fingerings
http://www.whc.net/rjones/trumpetfinger.html

Trombone Slide Position Chart

http://bandtek.com/fingerings/trombone-positions

Woodwind Fingering Charts

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/

Violin Fingering Chart

http://www.violinonline.com/fingeringchart.htm
Meet the Composer
http://www.unm.edu/~loritaf/pnokids.html
An imaginary trip back through time to meet classical composers