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BENEFITS ON TEACHING MUSIC TO CHILDREN: MUSIC AND BRAIN RESEARCH

U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley

INTERLOCHEN, Mich., July 5 /PRNewswire/ — During a two-day visit to Interlochen Center for the Arts, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley called for music and the arts to be a basic part of every child’s education. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000705/mi_interlo.html

An Artistic Processes Model that leads to independent musicianship. *There are three Artistic Processes involved in instruction and assessment. Creating, Performing, and Responding Developmentally appropriate goals and objectives at each grade level will give more rounded instruction and assessment, and allow kids to find success in many ways.

Brain Research Resources

• Singing Familiar Songs is Found to Use Spatial Abilities in the brain. By 6 months of age, infants develop a map in the auditory cortex of the phonetic sounds in the native language their mother or caretaker speaks. Depending on the language they either will or will not develop perfect pitch.
• Musical training during childhood may influence regional brain growth
• MUSIC AND BRAIN CONNECTIONS, INTELLIGENCE, MUSIC THERAPY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
• RESEARCH FINDINGS SHOW MUSIC CAN ENHANCE KEY COMPONENT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE – Dr. Francis Rauscher and Dr. Shaw
• MUSIC AND BRAIN CONNECTIONS, INTELLIGENCE, MUSIC THERAPY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
• The Connection Between Music and Emotions
• The Connection between Music and Neurological Disorders
• Brain Growth and Development
• MUSIC AND BRAIN CONNECTIONS, INTELLIGENCE, MUSIC THERAPY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS – Publications, On Line Journals, and Research on Music and Brain Development.
• Read Music. Music is, demonstrably, a language.
• Rhythm and Literacy
• Rhythm Syllables
• Rhythm Dictation
• Tonal language
  Some researchers think that music and language might have a common evolutionary origin. Some remnant of this tone-based musilanguage exists in tonal languages such as the various forms of Chinese, and in the sing-song of Japanese and Scandinavian languages. Speaking Tonal Languages Promotes Perfect Pitch.
• Musilanguage – prosody the inflections of everyday speech hold the key to understanding the emotional content of music.
• MUSIC CAN ENHANCE KEY COMPONENT OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
• MUSIC AND THE BRAIN
• Bottom Line easy to understand summary of some research facts
• Musical training during childhood may influence regional brain growth
• The Connection Between Music and Emotions
• Evolution of Language and Music – See Perfect Pitch
• Arts May Improve Students’ Grade
• Musical training during childhood may influence regional brain growth
• New Study Shows More of the Brain Used When Making Music
• Einstein Playing his Violin
• James Catterall Research suggests that the arts have distinct educational benefits.
• Dr. Gordan Shaw -Keeping Mozart in Mind book comes with CD
• Dr. Rauscher Reply NPR and Mozart Effect
• Mice and Music Experiment
• Mr. Holland Opus – Research – 1994 Gallup Survey April 14, 1997
• Piano Lessons
• Texas All-State Music Students Soar on SAT’s
• How to motivate kids to take music lessons and WHY music education, and all the arts, are BASIC education
• Arts in the Schools Paint Masterpiece: Higher Scores
• Helping City Schools Bring a Taste of the Arts to Students Ms. Rodriguez-Torres said that reading and math scores at P.S. 156, while still relatively low, have improved since the school won an Annenberg grant two years ago that has allowed it to work closely with cultural institutions.

Dabbling in the arts boosts students’ math test scores, concludes Canada’s largest long-term study measuring the effects of art, music, drama and dance on student achievement. Math scores jumped 11 points among elementary students at 170 schools across the country enrolled in a program that incorporates art instruction into the regular science and math curriculum, compared to schools without the enhanced arts classes, researchers from Queen’s University reported yesterday. The program, created by the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, brings artists into the classroom to teach children to sing, paint, sculpt and dance during math and science lessons.

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“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Sandra Trehub is one of the authors of a noted study on musically untutored babies, showing that they prefer harmony to dissonance.

2007 EVERY ENGLISH SCHOOLCHILD GRANTED A FREE TICKET TO A CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT
England’s eight top symphony orchestras are jointly promising that they will give every schoolchild free entry to a classical music concert. The goal is part of a 10-year plan to promote classical music, which includes a prize for budding composers. The organizers fear that with a crowded curriculum and tight budgets, music easily gets squeezed out of timetables. They say it enriches children’s lives, teaches the value of sustained effort and can help disruptive youngsters. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s principal conductor, Marin Alsop, said: “When I was a kid, I was a bit of a troublemaker. Then I started taking violin lessons. What it did for me was it gave me a feeling of self-esteem because I did something that was unique. A spokesperson for the Department for Education and Skills agreed that as well as being a worthwhile activity for its own sake, music was “a powerful learning tool which can build children’s confidence, teamwork and language skills”. “A better musical education for pupils can also help them hit the right note in their studies,” a spokesman said. Among other things, the government has announced significant new funding to boost music education, especially school singing, both in and out of school hours.

2005 Hearing and Language

Research – Mozart Effect and much much more!

MUSIC AND INTELLIGENCE AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MODE

Making the arts a central part of the curriculum and applying rigorous standards not only improved students’ learning of art, but other subjects as well, says an evaluation of an experimental program. From 1987 to 2001, the National Arts Education Consortium, with organizations based in California, Florida, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, has developed, tested and designed professional development and curriculum programs that stress the comprehensive approach to arts education. Westat, Rockville, Md.-based researchers, found that the arts program also supported other schoolwide reform efforts. Song and Dance boost grades in Math, Science National 11/27/2002
‘We knew it worked’: Study measures effects of music, drama, art

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