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"Music enhances our biological survival, has predictable developmental periods, cognition systems, memory systems, emotional intelligence, social and emotional skills, and perceptual motor systems!
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Music for our survival: animals and early humans often used music for group communication, which increased group safety and identification. Music may be used to increase harmony and social bonding among those playing it or listening to it. It may have also contributed to changes in the brain. Lastly, making music probably strengthened listening skills. The human brain has highly specialized structures for music. But music requires your whole body to engage, not just your brain and ears!
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Music has to develop: Learning music has a critical period in early life. Prior to birth, the unborn child can hear music. Birth to age 2, the child can differentiate between the slightest tones and sounds. Ages 2 to 5 is a critical age for development through music instruction. By age 2 and 3, children should be introduced to a wide variety of music. They could start music lessons by age 3. Music ages 5 to 10 is when music lessons should start. Ideally it should be from ages 3 to 8. The sooner the better! By age 10, the musical brain is 80% matured.
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Music enhances cognitive systems: Music helps you think by activating and synchronizing neural firing patterns that connect multiple brain sites. This increases both the brain's efficiency and effectiveness.
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Creativity and Emotional Intelligence and Music: Research supports that music enhances creativity. Music also supports emotional intelligence. It assist us in creating, identifying, and using emotional states to regulate our lives. For example, musicians use music to communicate their emotions. Music also allows students to relax and perform better in social situations.
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Music and Stress Response: Music can help regulate and influence blood flow, heart rate, and the strength of the immune system.
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Music and Memory: Studies suggest that memory is enhanced by music instruction. The beat, melody, and harmonies serve as "carriers" for the semantic content. For example, can you remember the words to a song easier than words to a conversation? Most people would say, "yes!".
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Music and Perceptual Motor Systems: Hearing selected sounds, playing an instrument, and singing may improve our ability to make finer acoustic distinctions and related auditory refinements. These qualities can positively influence a verity of skills, especially listening and reading. The effects are a result of the physical reorganization and growth in brain areas that define and regulate these skills. Such improvements has life long implications, including a significant and lasting effect on our perceptual abilities." (p. 13-45, Jenson)
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"Music is the universal language of mankind"
In the Classroom:
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"Teachers can implement the music arts in the classroom in many ways. Music can be played, composed, or listened to actively or passively! There are a few things teacher should remember when playing music in a learning environment. Many students who are having difficulty in school may have listening or hearing problems which could be affecting their behaviors, reading abilities, and attentional patterns. Making music is better than listening to it, let your students know why you are using the music that you are playing, and always be the last word in music selections. Get a CD player! Do action research with music. Remeber that background music does affect your students. Some students will complain about music becuase of another issue, but remember as a teacher, you should control this. Lastly, remember the power of authority figures and the value of your credibility with music. If you act positivly when using music, than your students will react positivly."(p. 45-46, Jenson)
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