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Welcome to the Lake Linden-Hubbell music room website!
There are many creative, musical and magical things that happen in our elementary music room.
Come along with us and take a journey through the sights and sounds of our special space.
There are many creative, musical and magical things that happen in our elementary music room.
Come along with us and take a journey through the sights and sounds of our special space.
Why do we learn 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 Physical Education: It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back stomach, and chest muscles, which responds instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
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 is the most complete and universal language.
Music is a History: Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/ or racial feeling.
Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is art.
That is why we learn 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 Physical Education: It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back stomach, and chest muscles, which responds instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
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 is the most complete and universal language.
Music is a History: Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/ or racial feeling.
Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is art.
That is why we learn Music.
Not because you are expected to major in music.
Not because you are expected to play or sing all your life.
Not so you can relax.
Not so you can have fun.
BUT-
so you will be human
so you will recognize beauty
so you will be sensitive
so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
so you will have something to cling to
so you will be able to sing lullabies to your babies
so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness,
more good- in short, more life
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is why we learn music!
Not because you are expected to play or sing all your life.
Not so you can relax.
Not so you can have fun.
BUT-
so you will be human
so you will recognize beauty
so you will be sensitive
so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
so you will have something to cling to
so you will be able to sing lullabies to your babies
so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness,
more good- in short, more life
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is why we learn music!