In class, the question as raised of a misplaced emphasis on music. Why are sports not treated with the same veneration? You work within diversity to formulate, from discord, a harmonious whole...but that happens when you play a team sport. There is deep emotional impact, but that too can occur within the realm of sports. Is there that one distinguishing factor?
While this is true, that the benefits of playing music may be found to some degree within other disciplines as well, and no matter the stretch, it is possible to find the majority of musical merits within sports, the operative phrase here is "to some degree." The degree to which cooperation is required is relatively similar, that's true. However, the degree to which emotions are impacted by participating or beholding music is not similar to the degree to which they are impacted by sports. I may have little more than empirical evidence to support this claim, and I shall not bother with all the anecdotal evidence, as it proves nothing, but I think it a very small leap to claim that the emotional impact of music is both stronger and more frequent. Music also teaches easily and uniquely the player and listener about natural laws that govern the universe, about science, and about math. Can such lessons be learned from sports? They certainly can, but again, it is less frequent and less potent of an experience when it happens.
There may be other factors I have not here enumerated, but I would reckon they would fit well enough into the pattern I have developed here...yes sports may contain that quality, but not to the same degree.
Question: Is there a laudable quality to music that cannot be found to any degree in sports?
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