THE ART OF MUSIC: A FORGOTTEN FRIEND

“Music is the art of expressing those things which can´t be expressed by words”, as Beethoven or Chopin used to say. Music can be considered another way of communication, another language as well as English or German, because there is an emisor who brings a message to the receptor. However, it seems the role of music as a discipline in our contemporanean society is not that important. What is more: it is so undervalued.

I have been learning music since I was 10. I started playing the bassoon, but I also applied for piano soon. Since then, I know my life has changed. Music has imbued me with lots of values as self-encouragement, imagination, perseverance, self-improvement or patience. Even though I´ve also practised sports, painting or theatre (which also involve a huge set of values), I honestly think music has nothing to do with them… it´s something amazingly different. And it´s a pity many people are not able to judge it: you can´t really understand or appreciate music and its advantages until you study it, until you get into this world.

Luckily, I´m not the only one who thinks music discipline is important in the field of education. There are lots of studies which prove that music can supplement and ease one´s development as a human, and there are lots of people who agree and claim for making music an important part of the process of education, as in several powerful countries (Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland…) where the musical culture is essential happens.

However, Spain seems to disagree with this idea. The laws made by the Spanish Government are more and more letting music aside from the general education of the youth. Politicians consider music something minor and subordinate, something lacking of importance, a “hobbie”. For instance, music will not be compulsory at primary school henceforth, and several weekly hours will be taken out at secondary school. In my case, I wanted to study both piano and bassoon at the Superior College of Music in Murcia, but I was not allowed because there is a new absurd law which prohibits students lead two different specialities at the same time… how smart!

Sometimes, I wonder myself what is gonna happen if Spain continues this way. Not only health services, but also education and arts are being frightfully hurt by these current politicians and their backward laws. The question is: how do they expect us to fly, if they are cutting our wings?