Is there a correlation between Modern Music Lesson Training & Confucianism?

Classical music is a component that has always been part of myself. It is almost impossible for me to ever define myself without thinking about music. This blog is to express my love for two important dominant themes that had been part of the culture worldwide: classical music and Confucianism.  However, these two topics were rarely associated together. In fact, most considers those themes as two separate entities.

My personal belief is that classical music training has been innately part of the Confucian tradition societies for thousands of years but just not explicitly expressed as that.

Above I have a clip from a music lesson, which this lesson is not the best type of example tof what I wish to illustrate since this student is a young 4-year old girl.  Like most 4-year old, she was barely able to sit through the 30 minutes lesson and already had no patience beyond sitting still for lesson past the 15 minutes mark. However, most piano lessons are actually approximately 1 hr, 30 minutes is already sort of short.

Although not the best example, the concept behind the learning of the 4 year girl for piano lesson is definitely worth discussing. First, the reason for the parents of the 4 year old girl who wish for her to take lessons. Second, the instructor teaching the girl acts in traditional Confucian manner as well.

One reason why the parent wanted her daughter to learn piano lesson is to make her daughter practice sitting through a some type of learning for a longer period of time so that when the daughter enteres kindergarten the daugther will not have as much trouble. Another reason comes from examination of the lesson closely, which the viewer would see that the piano lesson was taught in mandarin to an American born Chinese (ABC) child. Thus, this young child not just learn music and disciple but gains an opportunity to learn and retain her mandarin.