I write not as a musician nor with any vested interest in music, but as an educationalist.
We live in a society in which music tends to be seen as an extra – nice if there is time for it and if you have a knowledgeable teacher, but otherwise relatively unimportant.
Research on the great educational benefits offered by music education can be seen as inconclusive, and in any case, to pursue a subject in a crowded curriculum because it is good for other skills is a weak reason. After all, cognitive training can be taught through maths, team-work through sport, creativity through any of the arts, empathy for others through social studies, and so on. So why bother with music?
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