Students (Top to bottom, left to right): Joaquin Barba, Bug Marin, Jude Johnson, Arely Perez, Logan Keema. The Christmas Quartet in the booth with KVEC. Photo courtesy of senior Bug Marin.

  With this generation growing a greater love of music, we’ll need to better explain the complexity of music. To the average listener they couldn’t tell you what staccatos are, what a major, minor, or diminished chord sounds like, or what time signature a song is in, and that’s ok.

  However, what’s not ok is my peers’ tendency to not educate themselves. 

  We are leaning towards the dumbification of music; simple beats, reused tracks, and artists hiring writers for nothing pay. What happened to iconic bands like The Beatles, ABBA, and Foo Fighters writing their own songs? Pop singers can get away with having little to no influence on their music because they have people to figure out what’s hot for them.

  “[Understanding music] is great for developing brains because as the brain is still maturing, it rewires the normal course of neuronal communication to be more elaborate in connecting the left and right hemispheres,” said an alumni of St. John Fisher University, Anne R. Stoklosa.   

  Stoklosa furthers by getting deeper into how your brain responds to music. Your brain is built to respond and grow with music. 

  “Thomas Jefferson used music and his violin to help him write the Declaration of Independence. Music helped Jefferson get his thoughts from his brain onto paper,” said Stoklosa.

  This is why it is fundamental to understand music, it allows for enhanced thinking.

  “We have found that the best genres of music to listen to while studying, reading or writing include minimalist, classical, piano and low-fi music,” wrote researchers at the University of Arizona.  

  The only issue is that kids nowadays go from studying to snoozing. It’s easily fixable if you develop your music theory knowledge.

 
Source: fisherpub.sjf.edu