Users must have a pdf reader installed and configured on their web browser to view pdf files. The musical aesthetic experience involves the perception of meaning through aural images rather than through the medium of written language, discourse, mathematical formula, or other forms of expression. The development of one's aesthetic sense has been shown to enhance the quality of life both during the school years and throughout later life. Its importance as an avenue to self-realization has been affirmed by psychologists, researchers, and teachers.
Music is important to life in and of itself.
Music and the other arts are thus an important and unique communication of a culture's heritage. Because of the way the mind comprehends music, it can influence the development of the higher cognitive processes in ways not possible in other subject areas. Students who do not receive sensory stimulation such as that provided by music and the arts have been likened by educational researchers to youths who have sustained a degree of brain damage. Study in music correlates closely with increased creativity and critical and divergent thinking, important skills not only for developing self understanding but also for the present and future workplace. Wisconsin has developed music content and performance standards for all students K-12 in the areas of performing,improvising, composing, reading music, analyzing, evaluating, connecting music to other arts and disciplines, and connecting music with history and culture.