MUSIC DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE

 Every child has musical ability.

Every child is born with musical ability, but if it’s not nurtured early then it can fail to develop.  Being “unmusical” is more an outcome of poor training or lack of opportunity than it is from lack of ability.  Research published in early 2002 indicates that all babies are born with perfect pitch - it’s how they are able to recognise their mother’s voice and learn language.  But if they don’t learn to use it, then they lose it.  Early childhood music classes help a child to retain that fundamental musical skill. 

Music increases memory and reasoning capacity, and eloquence

A series of research experiments in Hungary in the 1950s explored why children studying at special music kindergarten and primary schools had higher academic scores than those at mainstream schools.  The studies concluded that learning and playing music improved not just academic performance, but also memory, reasoning, cooperation and the ability to think in the abstract.

Music improves concentration, memory and self-expression

A two year study in Switzerland run with 1200 children in more than 50 classes scientifically showed how playing music improved children’s reading and verbal skills though improving concentration, memory and self expression.  Others effects revealed by the study showed that children learned to like each other more, enjoyed school more (as did their teachers) and were less stressed during the various tests, indicating they were better able to handle stress.

Music improves the ability to think

Ongoing studies have shown that learning and playing music builds and modifies neural pathways related to spatial reasoning tasks.  We are born with all our brain cells but our neural pathways connections are made after we are born.   Music helps improve these neural pathways in every area of brain development. 

Why should my child learn Music?

Society has believed for many years that children should learn music for Music’s sake, as an excellent accomplishment and part of a well rounded, balanced education. 

Today, children are expected to learn so much more and parents have to decide which subjects their child can drop.  The answer is:  Not music!!  There is too much research to show that music is what helps all the other subjects they have to do.

For over 20 years Kindermusik has been and still is the world’s most respected name in musical learning for young children. Every aspect of the Kindermusik program is grounded in these core beliefs: every child is musical, every parent is the child's most important teacher, the home is the most important place for learning to take root and grow, and that based on research, music nurtures a child's cognitive, emotional, social, language and physical development.

From birth through seven years of age, with the caring guidance of a trained and licensed Kindermusik educator, your child can grow with Kindermusik without pressure to perform, only encouragement to explore, express and discover. You'll see a developmental evolution in language skills, literacy, listening, problem solving, social skills, self-esteem and musicality!

You’ll be involved in every stage of your child’s Kindermusik experience with the at Home materials. These include music, literature and activities, which extend the fun and discovery of our classes into the home to foster special times of connecting between parent and child. 

The above research data was extracted with permission from Australian Music Association literature.

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