Music is the only science which can be felt, tasted, heard, seen, and engaged where we change and flow with. I know some of you are like science??? Yes science music helps you understand and learn more than if you did not know music. And when you play the knowlege that you attain while playing wether its sheet music or just rapor with an audiance is also very helpfull for learnig skills. So if music helps then wouldnt other arts help, sure but not as much as the art of music, their are alot of studies gonning on right now on physics and its relation with music, even M thory is often described with musical language, this comes from string theroy which was given its name form the relation of strings to an instrament.