Introduction
Music is a very powerful subject: it has been used since Greek times for healing, communication, relaxation, and enjoyment. Even before birth we are aware of our mother’s heartbeat and during childhood we relax with the singing of a lullaby. Every day everyone hears some kind of musical tone or rhythm and it can even be found in nature, like the way birds communicate through song-like speech.
Music is such a powerful force that it creates deep emotions in humans: it is played at weddings for happiness, in horror movies and during war for fear, and at home for happiness and thus lends itself to creativity. relaxation, stress relief and health therapy. and the connection between music, body and soul has even been shown to improve physical and mental health.
Skills such as teamwork, communication, self-esteem, creative thinking, calm attitudes, imagination, discipline, study skills, and invention are learned and improved through studying music and focusing on fact. that young children are mostly very receptive to pitch and rhythm, one of the main ways in which a child learns their language, that we can promote music education for children to help them with benefits ranging from success in society and in life.
“We believe that the skills taught by the arts—creative thinking, problem solving, risk-taking, teamwork, and communication—are precisely the tools tomorrow’s workforce will need. If we don’t encourage students to master these skills they will Through quality art instruction today, how can we expect them to succeed in their highly competitive business careers tomorrow?”
-Richard Gurin
CEO, Binney and Smith, maker of Crayola crayons
Music is part of our society and part of all communities: every human culture uses music to carry out its ideas and ideals. A study of the arts provides children with an inside view of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. This development of compassion and empathy, as opposed to the development of greed and a selfish attitude, provides bridges between different cultures that lead to respect for other races at an early age.
Music is of great value to our economy: it creates jobs, increases the tax base, boosts tourism and stimulates the growth of related businesses. The study of music develops skills that are necessary in the workplace, such as teamwork skills and discipline: during musical performances, all members must work together to create the sounds they want to achieve and this also requires practice regular. Music favors working and ‘doing’ rather than watching, and this is the ethic employers are looking for.
Due to music’s ability to relax, calm and heal, and its optimal platform for emotions, participation in music helps forge brighter attitudes: more optimism about the future, less TV and unproductive activities, low alcohol consumption , tobacco and illicit activities. drugs and desire to develop individual abilities.
Music requires study skills, communication skills, and cognitive skills, and as these are learned and developed, they broaden a student’s abilities in other academic areas and help them become a better student. – Students with courses/experience in music performance and music appreciation scored higher on the SAT: students in music performance scored 57 points higher in verbal and 41 points higher in math, and students in music appreciation scored 63 points higher in verbal and 44 points higher in math than students who did not participate in the arts. — National Report on Seniors on the Path to College: Profile of SAT Test Takers. Princeton, New Jersey: The University
Entrance Examination Board, 2001.
Music discipline, particularly through ensemble participation, helps students learn to work effectively in the school environment without resorting to violent or inappropriate behavior. According to statistics compiled by the National Data Resource Center, students who may be classified as “disruptive” (based on factors such as frequent absences from class, times in trouble, in-school suspensions, disciplinary reasons given, arrests, and dropouts) totaled 12.14 percent of the total school population. In contrast, only 8.08 percent of students who participate in music classes meet the same criteria as “disruptive.” — Based on data from NELS:88 (National Education Longitudinal Study), second follow-up, 1992.
Many studies have been done on the effects of music on the brain. Scientists say that children who are exposed to music or who play an instrument do better in school than those who are not. Recent research suggests that exposure to music may benefit a child’s reading age, IQ, and the development of certain parts of the brain.
Some measures of a child’s intelligence can be shown to increase with musical instruction: a connection between music and spatial intelligence (the ability to accurately perceive the world and form mental images of things) helps people to visualize and imagine solutions. This helps people solve problems creatively and is critical to the kind of thinking needed to solve math problems and even general everyday tasks.
“The musician is constantly fine-tuning decisions about tempo, key, style, rhythm, phrasing and feeling, training the brain to be incredibly good at organizing and directing numerous activities at once. Dedicated practice of this orchestration can be highly rewarding for lifetime”. capacity for attention, intelligence and capacity for self-knowledge and expression”. –Ratey John J., MD. A user’s guide to the brain. New York: Pantheon Books, 2001.
Along with mental development, the study of music can support the physical development of the brain: musical training has been suggested to physically develop the parts of the brain known to be involved with language processing and reasoning, and actually it can wire the brain’s circuits in specific ways. Memory can be enhanced by linking familiar songs to objects, just like linking pictures – memories and emotions from the past can be triggered by audio.
“Why the arts in education? Why education at all? The purpose of education is not simply to inform, but to enrich and illuminate, to provide information about life as it has been led and how it can be led. No element of the curriculum is better suited to that task than art education.
-David Kearns
Now retired, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation
Ideally, we want our children to experience “success” throughout life itself. The benefits can be psychological, spiritual and physical and with the challenge of making life meaningful and fulfilling and reaching a higher state of development by engaging in music, we develop self-expression which in turn leads to self-esteem, which ultimately gives us help you succeed in these challenges
“Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the ‘incredible wonder’ of being human. Ives says it expands his mind and challenges him to be a true individual. Bernstein says it’s empowering and ennobling. To me, “That sounds like a worthy cause to make music an integral part of every child’s education. Studying music and the arts elevates children’s education, broadens students’ horizons, and teaches them to appreciate the wonder of life.” .
— United States Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, July 1999.
Conclusion
Music is a powerful tool and as you can see, it can dramatically enhance and enrich everyone. It makes sense to boost music education and allow the younger generations to reap these wonderful benefits: increased intelligence through increased creative thinking, problem solving and physically stronger brains, increased insight into life including better attitudes, strong desires to achieve and fulfill and a higher self. self-esteem, better developed discipline, study skills, concentration, communication and team skills that transfer from education to career and a better understanding of communities and society