Q
Ever wonder
what will happen to your instrument in case it was severely damaged
due to various circumstances?
A Be
sure your instrument is covered under some type of insurance. Try
your homeowners or rental insurance to ensure that in case of
emergency, you can break open the emergency glass and receive money
for any damages or in need of replacement.
Tip:
Parents, talk
to your children about consequences of letting others play their
instrument, proper maintenance, and proper handling of their
instrument. This will ensure a long life for the instrument and in
turn will lead to a long musical life for your child free of added
frustrations.
*Please
note that District 86 is not responsible for any
broken, damaged, or stolen items left at school.
“The Instrumentalist,” September 1972, by John Olsinski
WHY MUSIC?
1.
Music is a Science.
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A
conductor’s full score is a chart or graph, which indicates
frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at
once and with the most exact control of time.
2.
Music is Mathematical.
It is rhythmically based on the sub-divisions of time into
fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on
paper.
3.
Music is 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.
4.
Music is History.
Music usually reflects the environment and time of its creation.
5.
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 ears hears and the mind interprets.
6.
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 use them to create emotion. This is
one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call
it what you will.
THIS IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC:
Not because we expect you to major in music.
Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life.
BUT—so you will be human,
so you will recognize beauty,
so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more
good –in short-MORE LIFE!!!!!!!!
Taken from the PMEA-(Pennsylvania Music Education Association)
