
MUSIC IS A SCIENCE
It is exact, specific, and it demands specific acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph, which indicates frequencies, 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
Many musical terms are in Italian, German or French, and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developed type of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
MUSIC IS HISTORY
Music often reflects the political and social atmosphere of the time in which it was created.
MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION
It requires fantastic coordination of the fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks, 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 ALL OF THESE THINGS, BUT MOST OF ALL...
MUSIC IS AN ART.
-Frank Crawford, Music Showcase Education Rep.