The two texts deal with the issue of music being underrated in our modern world.
As was outlined in the first text, music is everywhere, in ads, supermarkets, and most people do not pay attention to it anymore.
The ones who could provide us with high-quality music, professional musicians, cannot make ends meet due to lack of financial means and support from institutions.
They are forced to abandon music because they cannot sustain themselves.
Further proof of this is the fact that music is less and less taught at schools and notconsidered as important as the main subjects.
Yet research shows that children could benefit from learning to play an instrument, from a cognitive and behavioral point of view.
It would help them socialize and learn how to work in a team.
While both texts make a point by arguing that music is losing the sacred quality it had in the past, they are exaggerating its degrade.
Listening to music is still widely popular, especially with young people, and was made possible with many devices that let you take your music everywhere you go.
Tickets for concert venues and opera halls are always sold out, popular singers are more famous than the Pope, new groups emerge every day.
Music is very much alive but has taken new forms, and can now be made at home with a computer and broadcasted to a world-wide audience.
It has never been so easy to listen to music in all of human history.
May 2017
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