MUSIC IS A SCIENCE:  It is exact, specific and it demands exact acoustics.  Printed music is a chart, a graph, which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

MUSIC IS MATHEMATICAL:  It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

MUSIC IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE:  Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French and the notations are certainly not English – but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas, not unlike the symbols found in computer language.  The semaphore of music is the most complete and universal language.

MUSIC IS HISTORY:  Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the national or ethnic mood.  Civilization is often defined by its arts.

MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION:  It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and other facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the Diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.

MUSIC IS ALL THESE THINGS, BUT MOST OF ALL, MUSIC IS ART:  It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion.  That is one thing science cannot duplicate:  humanism, feeling, emotion.