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INSTILLING A NEW VALUE IN ALL MUSIC MAJORS: MUSIC THERAPY

INSTILLING A NEW VALUE IN ALL MUSIC MAJORS: MUSIC THERAPY

If you want to major in music, everyone knows the obvious choices are either performance or education. Many freshman come in with music scholarships-so why not try it out and see? I’m sure that the statistics of people who drop out of the school of music in their first or second year would make any pre-music major think that ‘just trying and seeing’ a is the way of looking at your college degree. This may not be a serious problem in other majors, like when switching from business to economics, but in the school of music it is a different thing, and can be harmful in many ways. This way of thinking can create general apathy in the classrooms, the studios, and maybe even in the teachers. My freshman year one of my best friends was on a full ride with a flute performance scholarship. She truly hated playing the flute, but since she got the scholarship she was forced into staying in the school of music for 2 yea...

Posted by: Jack Drewes

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