Importance of Music Education
The Importance of Music Education
Stephanie Joyce
ED201, Legal Issues in Education
Professor James Pietrovito
October 21, 2012
My topic paper I decided to write about will be on the importance of Music Education! A lot of schools in America these days are cutting the Fine Arts programs (art and music). I don’t think that the school systems realize that the subject of music is as important as Mathematics, English, Physics, American History, and so on. I want to prove to everyone just how important the subject of music is to our students! According to Chapter Five in the textbook Foundations of American Education: 6th Edition, back in the Middle Ages, city states such as Sparta, Athens and Rome had a wide variety of studies. They studied reading, writing, arithmetic, literature, mathematics, and so on and so forth. But what I also noticed is that they did big amounts of studies in the fine arts (music, art and dance). Now, back in the middle ages, they found that the fine arts were as equally important as other subjects (mathematics, astronomy, science, etc.). Why in today 's world, people don 't see that the fine arts are as important to learn as any other subject in school? Now a days, many of the fine art classes are either being cut from schools, or just completely terminated! If the Middle Ages thought it was "important" to learn, then why do most schools feel that it 's not important to keep the fine art classes alive? This is one of my other reasons why I decided to make this topic my term paper topic. “Music affects people intellectually, emotionally, physically, personally and socially (Falango, 2009, p. 1)”. Music has been a part of this world for thousands of years, even before Christ. King David composed and performed many songs. Back in those days, the songs that King David wrote were referred as “Psalms”. Psalms are songs that were used to worship God. “During his 40 years ruling Israel (Schoenberg, 2011, p. 1), King David wrote many
Stephanie Joyce
ED201, Legal Issues in Education
Professor James Pietrovito
October 21, 2012
My topic paper I decided to write about will be on the importance of Music Education! A lot of schools in America these days are cutting the Fine Arts programs (art and music). I don’t think that the school systems realize that the subject of music is as important as Mathematics, English, Physics, American History, and so on. I want to prove to everyone just how important the subject of music is to our students! According to Chapter Five in the textbook Foundations of American Education: 6th Edition, back in the Middle Ages, city states such as Sparta, Athens and Rome had a wide variety of studies. They studied reading, writing, arithmetic, literature, mathematics, and so on and so forth. But what I also noticed is that they did big amounts of studies in the fine arts (music, art and dance). Now, back in the middle ages, they found that the fine arts were as equally important as other subjects (mathematics, astronomy, science, etc.). Why in today 's world, people don 't see that the fine arts are as important to learn as any other subject in school? Now a days, many of the fine art classes are either being cut from schools, or just completely terminated! If the Middle Ages thought it was "important" to learn, then why do most schools feel that it 's not important to keep the fine art classes alive? This is one of my other reasons why I decided to make this topic my term paper topic. “Music affects people intellectually, emotionally, physically, personally and socially (Falango, 2009, p. 1)”. Music has been a part of this world for thousands of years, even before Christ. King David composed and performed many songs. Back in those days, the songs that King David wrote were referred as “Psalms”. Psalms are songs that were used to worship God. “During his 40 years ruling Israel (Schoenberg, 2011, p. 1), King David wrote many
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