Music Education Importance

When Hampton students and those from many other schools reach the third grade, they are required to learn how to play the recorder. Although it is not the most difficult instrument to learn, it lays the tracks on the way for children to want to learn a more advanced instrument. In fourth grade, these students are given the opportunity to learn a different instrument such as percussion or violin. Music education is important because it helps in many different aspects of people’s lives mentally and socially. When looking at music education from a scientific lens it is clear that music is beneficial to the brain and can be maximized through specific teachings.

Music education is a program in so many schools because of the brain developments that

It socially benefits children in music education programs. This is shown in compilation of facts produced by the NAMM foundation, a foundation that promotes the benefits of making music, that cites the Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS). PEPS is a non-profit organization that aims to strengthen families, increase family wellness, and prepare families to cope with life stresses by creating social, thriving neighborhood-based parent groups. PEPS states, Playing a musical instrument means understanding tone which can translate in people’s tones of voices. It also states that learning an instrument makes it easier to learn new languages and have a “better verbal memory”(NAMM). This is shows it socially benefits children because they learn about tone which helps musicians understand people’s emotions. This learning of tone also helps children educationally by making it easier to learn other languages and remember different things. Music education also helps to socially benefit children by helping to develop social skills. This is shown once again by PEPS when the organization states that, “cooperation, sharing, compromise, creativity, and concentration - skills that become invaluable as they enter school, face new challenges, and begin to form new friendships and develop social skills” (NAMM). This is saying that basic social skills taught at

First, age was tested. This can be seen by the Neuroscience Conference, run by the Society for Neuroscience. This makes the conference a reliable source because it is a non-profit organization of about 40,000 scientists and physicians from 90 countries around the world. Through the Neuroscience Conference that took place in 2013, the idea of “beginning training before the age of seven has the greatest impact” was presented (“Musical”). This is saying that the most effective age for the brain to continue to be affected in adulthood is seven. Next, Diane Cole, the author of the article “Your Aging Brain Will Be in Better Shape If You 've Taken Music Lessons”, is often associated with writing psychology articles which means she has a good understanding of the brain. Through her article, she presented a study done by Brenda Hanna-Pladdy who is cited as an expert in neuropsychology in a scientist database, and had her study published in U.S. government information database. Her study stated, “the more they had trained and played, the more benefit the participants had gained. But, intriguingly, they didn 't lose all of the benefits even when they hadn 't played music in decades” (Cole). The results, as stated above, showed that people of older age were clearly continuing to receive the benefits of playing music in their younger