I would, however, take issue with Rogelio’s statement that music has to be felt and cannot be explained. My dissent is based on singing with three groups in Japan, a men’s chorus dedicated to performing the modernist music of Japanese composer Saegusa Shigeaki, an ancient music ensemble, and a local chorus whose members are mostly seventy-plus with a repertoire that spans Japanese children’s songs, American show tunes, classical pops (Verdi), and new music composed by the director. In every case, getting the music to feel right has been an issue. Immense effort is put into getting the tempo, pitch, and rhythms right, but the music is still missing. At this point, the directors do ask the singers to sing with more feeling; but they don’t stop there. There is constant instruction to, for example, sing the notes a bit higher here, loosen the rhythm there, let the body sway….the tweaking continues until music is achieved. Music emerges from a synthesis of analysis and feeling, not feeling alone.