Klarinet Archive - Posting 000380.txt from 1997/04

From: Kimberly Joan Kriston <kjk0003@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: ammo for music teachers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:58:17 -0400

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Lorne G. Buick wrote:

> 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 $$$:
* i read this article too. sounds promising for us future music
educators.
> [From the Globe and Mail (Canada's "National" Newspaper), Fri. April 11, p A20]
>
> **************
>
> 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.
*concepts such as addition and subtraction (from note durations) and
patterns (from scales, sequences, form, etc) were easier for the children
to comprehend as well. so, guess what?: we musicians are smart people
because of our music &!! this proves that music is beneficial and almost
crucial. yea!! :-)
i just had to give my two cents. -kim = UNT
> ****************
> > 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
>