Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 1997/04

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.NET>
Subj: ammo for music teachers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:57:57 -0400

Here's a tidbit that someone might be able to use in the fight against
cutbacks, or to encourage someone who's debating where to spend limited $$$:

[From the Globe and Mail (Canada's "National" Newspaper), Fri. April 11, p A20]

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Musical Benefits

The piano keyboard beat the computer keyboard in a study of preschoolers.
Frances Rauscher of the U. of California, Irvine, and her team of
researchers selected 100 children and divided them into three groups: those
to be trained on a computer for 15 minutes twice a week, those to get the
equivalent training on a piano nad those getting no special training. After
eight months, an IQ test showed the music group scored significantly
higher on skills essential in math, science, engineering and games like
chess. When youngsters study piano, researchers said, concepts such as
forward and back, up and down, loud and soft become easier to understand.

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Information is not Knowledge. Knowledge is not Understanding.
Understanding is not Wisdom. Wisdom is not Truth.
Truth is not Beauty. Beauty is not Music.
Music is best. -Frank Zappa

   
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