Mr.

Washington Newsletter
September 15, 2019
Music, as many people have said, is announcing, “The band is coming.” when
a universal language that breaks every the band finally arrived they had a large
barrier to bring together people from all group of followers cheering them on. Then
walks of life. On the other hand, it creates sounds from all instruments and drums ig-
feelings and brings memories to life in our nited the crowd even more that people be-
minds that we all love. However, the mem- gan dancing in the street. None-
ories music brings to my theless, that moment stayed
mind, is when I began going with me and revealed the impact
to local parades. Holiday pa- music can have on society.
rades in Charleston, South Moreover, I noticed no matter
Carolina was one of the best how different our circumstances
parts of growing up. The en- were music embraced all individ-
ergy of the crowd in re- uals from different racial, and re-
sponse toward the Burke High School ligious backgrounds on one accord. For
Marching Band coming down the street that reason, I made a decision to pursue a
was unbelievable. As the sound of the career in music education, to bring togeth-
drums grew close, anticipation from the er and cultivate the minds of the youth in
crowd grow along with it. People would
be yelling, jumping up and down, and Why Music Education?
Listening Material In fact, trained boys to sing Gregorian
chant for religious services” (Music
when researching the histo-
• Klazz Brothers, ry of music education I
Teachers). “Eventually, music be-
Mozart Symphony gan to be imparted into monasteries
found it has been a part of
no. 40 and religious schools which pro-
social and religious culture
duced the first universities that edu-
• Duke Ellington, since the dawn of civiliza-
cated students in both music theory
Grieg’s Peer Gynt tion. “In Western civilization and applied music” (Music Teach-
music was strongly influ-
• Jacques Loussier enced by the Roman ers). After a while,
Trio, Vivaldi’s Four Catholic music education
Seasons was also intro-
Church” (Music
duced to German,
• Jacques Loussier Teachers). “Actually, Italian and Ameri-
in the medieval peri-
Trio, Ravel’s Bole- can schools. In
od, the Church song
ro the United States,
schools was the only places
Duke Ellington, music education gradually made
• where formal musical edu-
progression as churches and
Sugar Rum Cherry cation could be found, which
schools began to establish.