The development of this potential and responsiveness, regardless of level, provides a basis for attainment of the good life of which music and musical experience are important ingredients. Music provides an outlet for creativity and for self-expression. It enables students to express their noblest thoughts and feelings. It engages their imaginations and allows them to assert their uniqueness. Humans are unique among earthly creatures in their ability and desire to express their feelings, their hopes, their yearnings, their innermost being.
Music is an ever present means to such self-expression.
The study of music can help students understand better the nature of humankind. It reveals unique aspects of our relationship with other human beings and with our environment. It provides a readily accessible avenue to the study of other cultures. Participation in the music program prepares our people to participate meaningfully in the rites and rituals of the society. Public and private events would indeed be routine and lifeless without the imaginative appeal of music.