Benefits of Music Training (7 Pages)
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Benefits of Music Training
There have been concerns and questions whether or not music should be offered as a class in public schools. Students who received daily music training for seven months had higher reading scores at the end than a control group did that received little or no musical training. A year later, the scores were compared again and the students that had musical training were still higher than the students reading scores were. (Annette Kingsbury). With this statistic, many people believe in getting a fine arts education back in school for children to improve their learning skills. In recent years, music training is not as important as it used to be. Many schools offer music as an extracurricular activity. In American schools and around the world are dropping the music classes; therefore making music teachers lose their jobs and students lose their musical expression and experience. Protests are starting to come around from the parents and the teachers who want to get their children back into music and art classes in school. The protests are not as effective as they could be but are starting to make a difference. Protests are helping along with television commercials that are trying to bring the music back into our schools and neighborhoods. Music has more of a benefit than we think. The costs of instruments aren’t as high in stores anymore, due to the lack of value that we are making the instruments have. By not encouraging music, they sit in the stores and collect dust rather than letting children learn and expand their knowledge of music. The drum, violin and the piano are on the popular side when it comes to instruments that the parents to choose for their children. This is because they are some of the most basic learning instruments. It was also shown that preschoolers who had piano training did better at math reasoning than a different group who had a computer instead of a piano. When students had drum practice they would have to
Benefits of Music Training
There have been concerns and questions whether or not music should be offered as a class in public schools. Students who received daily music training for seven months had higher reading scores at the end than a control group did that received little or no musical training. A year later, the scores were compared again and the students that had musical training were still higher than the students reading scores were. (Annette Kingsbury). With this statistic, many people believe in getting a fine arts education back in school for children to improve their learning skills. In recent years, music training is not as important as it used to be. Many schools offer music as an extracurricular activity. In American schools and around the world are dropping the music classes; therefore making music teachers lose their jobs and students lose their musical expression and experience. Protests are starting to come around from the parents and the teachers who want to get their children back into music and art classes in school. The protests are not as effective as they could be but are starting to make a difference. Protests are helping along with television commercials that are trying to bring the music back into our schools and neighborhoods. Music has more of a benefit than we think. The costs of instruments aren’t as high in stores anymore, due to the lack of value that we are making the instruments have. By not encouraging music, they sit in the stores and collect dust rather than letting children learn and expand their knowledge of music. The drum, violin and the piano are on the popular side when it comes to instruments that the parents to choose for their children. This is because they are some of the most basic learning instruments. It was also shown that preschoolers who had piano training did better at math reasoning than a different group who had a computer instead of a piano. When students had drum practice they would have to