Schools and universities use the music/art connection to enhance student learning. There are music and art classes and training camps for students across the world. The Australian Chamber Orchestra has a series of video lessons designed to help students understand how music works. The ACO has one on how abstract art and shapes are depicted in music.
We also strive to help students appreciate Art, Music and Theatre as significant dimensions of the human experience. Studying the history of the arts brings home the central role that they have played in the development of human thought, both within and outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Practicing the arts encourages students to incorporate creative expression into their wider intellectual and personal development. In forming the human being more completely, the department fulfills a fundamental goal of Catholic education.
- As the definition of popular music changes over time as public tastes change, defining art