Why Music?

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 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 are the most complete and universal language.

Music is Physical Education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, 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 Develops Insight and Demands Research
Music is all 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 uses them to
create emotion.  That is one thing science cannot duplicate; humanism, feeling,
emotion, call it what you will.

---Author unknown