Author: Brenda
Date: 2005-06-21 15:01
I'm just gathering more information for our orchestra's education program, and my focus is on newborns and very small children. Those who are rocked, cradled, danced with, and so forth have a very strong sense of rhythm. New parents are urged to have music of all kinds in the home with the exception of "head-banging rock" that even animals and plants have a hard time accepting.
Music in the form of Mom and Dad's singing, instruments, recordings, and being moved to rhythms help to form vital brain circuits that include learning vocabulary (phonological awareness). This early exposure trains the brain to have an appreciation for music, and even an emotional attachment to one or more songs. So even if the baby doesn't grow to become the next Mozart, at the very least he'll be building needed tools to soothe the soul later on - and play music when he's in school!
One little guest in our home came into the studio while I was teaching, and once he heard us playing in time to the metronome he started bouncing right in time to the music! We had a good laugh, but that's what I'd wanted my student to feel inside her soul, the rhythm! But this little 3-yr-old was born to Salsa music, literally, in the delivery room. Being from Columbia the boy had plenty of exposure to delightful rhythms.
www.scholastic.com/familymatters/read/age3_5/singing.html
www.babycenter.com/refcap/baby/babydevelopment/6548.html
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