ESSAY: THE ARTISTIC EDUCATION IN SPAIN

The artistic education in Spain has decreased in the last years. Conservatories are closed, orchestras break ,teachers suffer dimissals every day.It is certain that government have had to cut, but it has cut too many in education, but especially in artistic teachings. The artistic education in Spain should be more valuable.

 First of all artistic education at schools have been reduced considerably. Some subjects, such as music, they are now being taken for many less hours than others. Whereas some subjets such as maths or language are coursed for four or five hours in a week, music is coursed for one or two hours as an optional subject and besides, during some schools years music is not studied. In addition, the arts higher secondary-education which was studied by 8000 teenagers the last year, it has been deleted. Consequently, a lot of teenagers won' able to study what they want to.

 Moreover, the higher artistic teachings aren't considered as an university degree. As an example, whereas any degree is awarded from four to six years, musical studies are begun at the age of eight years and are finished at 22. Finally, after fourteen years studing music, you don't receive an university diploma.

 Whereas in Spain the artistic education isn't considered too important, in other countries have a lot of importance. For instance, in countries such as Germany or France, playing an instrument at schools is compulsory. However, in Spain music subjet is hardly taken and many people don't show interest in such studies. In other countries there are many orchestras and they are some of the more well-paid jobs, some of them are even very famous around the world, such as Philarmonic Berlin's Orhestra. In Spain every time there are less professional orchestras , on account of the low amount of money destinated to these teachings and musicians have worse salaries.

To sum up, artistic education should be increased in Spain. On the contrary, less people will study these subjets and less artists will have, losing the art culture.