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A Mabry parent forwarded this article to me. It details a study showing what we know already, that studying music makes you smarter! I love this kind of stuff because it's great ammo when I talk to prospective orchestra parents. Check it out because there's a bunch of other cool stuff at this site.
This kind of research is a great plus for studying music, but as I've said in another post on this blog, if I felt that my raison d’être was to help my students score higher on the SAT test, I'd quit teaching tomorrow. My intent is to provide students the means to explore, create and appreciate beauty.
Here are a few quotes you may have already read.
Red Auerbach
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Frank Zappa
Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best.
Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Music is what feelings sound like.
Posted by Mr. Doemel
