Music is a science
It is exact, specific, and it demands precise acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with 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 Italian, German, or French, and the notation is certainly not English — but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The Semantics 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 country and/or racial feeling.

Music is physical education
It requires coordination of fingers, hands, arms, legs, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.

Music is all of these things,
but most of all, music is art
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically tedious and difficult techniques — and use them to create an emotional response. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.