Many of the motions involved in making art‚ such as holding a paintbrush or scribbling with a crayon‚ are essential to the growth of fine motor skills in young children. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ developmental milestones around age three should include drawing a circle and beginning to use safety scissors. Around age four‚ children may be able to draw a square and begin cutting straight lines with scissors. Many preschool programs emphasize the use of scissors because it develops
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composed by Dr. Jonathan Pasternack‚ that enhanced my knowledge and emotional state through the uniqueness of both the symphony and opera act. Having only experienced a symphony once during the course of my life‚ I was ecstatic to attend such a soothing and joyful concert. The concert was fairly short‚ it last two hours‚ and consisted of 2 symphony songs and 1 opera act. The first two were symphony‚ which were played in a very unpredictable manner. The melody (violins) started off very slow and
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Required Music Education According to “College Bound Seniors National Report: Profile of SAT Program Test Takers‚” “Students in music appreciation classes scored 63 points higher on verbal and 44 points higher on math than students with no arts participation.” Music programs are being cut and underfunded even though these programs should be the first to be funded; they provide a magnitude of benefits. Music should be taught progressively just like English or social studies. The music class would
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Music in different cultures English from this country has changed a lot over the years‚ mainly due to changes in technology. Starting with cave men making instruments from sticks and rocks‚ having people playing harpsichord to nowadays where people are able to either play music on an instrument themselves or create it on a computer. Due to a slow advance of technology in some places in Africa‚ the tribes over their have kept pretty traditional sticking to music on drums‚ harp like instruments‚ rattles
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passion for music and not a day goes by that I don’t listen to it. Music not only carries me throughout my daily routine‚ I believe it runs through my veins in which it has affected my life in positive and negative ways. Although‚ there are some similarities in the ways that I am affected negatively and positively‚ there are some distinct differences that make music a positive and negative part of my life. Music can have many positive effects on a person’s health. For example‚ music has been proven
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differences between the music represented on the Your Eyes CD and the Big Band music. The most noticeable is the is the way the vocals are represented. On the Your Eyes the vocal are song‚ while on the other hand the Big Band vocalization is done instrumentally. For example‚ Duke Ellington employed the technique of wordless vocals. This technique‚ sometimes referred to as instrumentalized voice‚ became synonymous with Ellington. The instrumental vocals of the Big Band music are spontaneous and improvisation
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Music as art. My favorite music style. Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence that are organized in time in a special way. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony)‚ rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo‚ meter‚ and articulation)‚ dynamics‚ and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. In the historical context the development of music is inseparable from the active development of person’s sensory abilities. Course of the auditory development of the
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The focus of this article is how music/music therapy can lead to improved brain function in patients who are in a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state. According to the article‚ vegetative state is defined as “a state in which patients exhibit a lack of awareness of external stimuli‚ but with preservation of sleep–wake cycles and vital vegetative functions (such as cardiac action‚ respiration and maintenance of blood pressure) while remaining completely unaware of both self and environment”(Okumura
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The narrative that I chose to read was "Soothing Saxophone". This narrative displays how the author’s interest in music was sparked from listening to a Kenny G song‚ "Songbird". The author’s fascination‚ in the saxophone‚ encouraged him to take Band class when he reached middle school. The passage describes how the band teacher‚ Ms. Simmons‚ persuaded the author to take lessons after school. These lessons allow the author to achieve the sound they had always dreamed of. Something I liked about how
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(9:40-11:05) “Why is music class important?” Society believes that the education you receive is important as it becomes part of a human’s soul. In my opinion‚ they stand corrected. According to many studies‚ the human mind is able to collect endless knowledge. Not necessarily facts from the basic math equations or famous poets from the Renaissance literature…the way they becomes creative and develop an independent mindset is by familiarizing the silent expressions from music art. Music affects the human
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