Humans have an innate desire and need to create. It is part of what makes us human. Once we have created an artistic work, there is usually an immense feeling of satisfaction and resolution- a feeling that we have "made a statement". Sometimes it is almost impossible to say what that statement is, but nonetheless we usually experience a feeling of satisfaction and completion.
When you were born, and until you were approximately one year old, you were essentially a non-verbal person. You communicated your needs and desires with crying, gurgles and nondescript vocalizations. Your parents became experts on how to interpret those vocalizations. By hearing speech around you, and with occasional corrections by your parents, you slowly began a process of developing a vocabulary - completely by ear.
Sometimes musicians will claim that they don't want to study music theory for fear it will stifle their creativity. They equate increasing theoretical knowledge with
When you were born, and until you were approximately one year old, you were essentially a non-verbal person. You communicated your needs and desires with crying, gurgles and nondescript vocalizations. Your parents became experts on how to interpret those vocalizations. By hearing speech around you, and with occasional corrections by your parents, you slowly began a process of developing a vocabulary - completely by ear.
Sometimes musicians will claim that they don't want to study music theory for fear it will stifle their creativity. They equate increasing theoretical knowledge with
diminishing artistic sense. And nothing could be further from the truth.
The world's greatest composers were all masters of music theory: J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms- all had a keen understanding of the theoretical constructs of the music they composed. They spent years studying, in minute detail, the music of other composers, analyzing compositions to gain a greater understanding of how music worked.
And by doing so, you enhanced your own use of the language, and increased your ability to communicate ideas. By learning to read, an entire world was opened up to you. Like Mozart's ability to study other composer's music, you were able to begin to read other people's words, and to thereby further heighten your own abilities to use and manipulate words.
The world's greatest composers were all masters of music theory: J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms- all had a keen understanding of the theoretical constructs of the music they composed. They spent years studying, in minute detail, the music of other composers, analyzing compositions to gain a greater understanding of how music worked.
And by doing so, you enhanced your own use of the language, and increased your ability to communicate ideas. By learning to read, an entire world was opened up to you. Like Mozart's ability to study other composer's music, you were able to begin to read other people's words, and to thereby further heighten your own abilities to use and manipulate words.
