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Small group classes based on age and experience.
Private lessons by appointment.
Warm supportive atmosphere.
Blending technology and tradition.
Experienced, professional, friendly instructors.
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 that indicates frequencies,
intensities, volume changes, melody and harmonies 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 that must be done instantaneously, not worked out on
paper.
Music
is another 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 history.
Music usually reflects the environment and times
of its creation, often even the country and its culture.
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 respond instantly
to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
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. That
is one thing that science cannot duplicate; humanism; feeling; emotion;
call it what you will.
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