alouette! gentille, alouette! alouette, je te plu me rai!: links to articles for paper/summary of link

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

links to articles for paper/summary of link

my paper is on music in schools and how it helps with academic learning. basically how music students are proven to learn faster than those who are not music students. Also how music in the classroom helps comprehension and remembering faster.

1. www.jstor.org/view/00274321/sp060416/06x2332h/0

2. www.news.ku.edu/2007/june/28/music.shtml

3. www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/music-education3

4. www.mustcreate.org/global/global8_1_3.shtml

5. http://alumni.yale.edu/aya/blueprint/article.php?id=7

6. www.menc.org/publication/articles/academic/hawaii.htm

7. www.jstor.org/view/00224294/ap060151/06a00040/0

8. http://books.google.com/bookshl=en&lr=&id=pr8KhGm9B3UC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=does+music+really+increase+brain+activity%3F+&ots=WaO1l8rOaJ&sig=bvLSSg1dahUljpYmdEW5 mh4AC8#PPA18,M1

This summary is about the third link.

Marion Diamond states, "According to the National Coalition for Music Education, one third fewer high school students are taking music classes now than fifty years ago". Even though there is no real proof that music enhances child brain development, there is some evidence that it does enhance brain activity. Depending upon how long the student learns a form of music, will detemine how long and how much faster they learn. While listening may not enhance the intellect, playing an instrument can increase "'voluntary attention'...'discipline, care, concentration, and perseverance' ".

Chipongian, Lisa. "Can Music Education Really Enhance Brain Functioning and Academic Learning?" http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/music-education3. Summer 1998. University of Wissconsin-Madison. 29 Sept. 2007 .

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what is music?

Music is a science. It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies,intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and withthe most exact control of time.
Music is mathematical. It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out onpaper.
Music is a foreign language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French; and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developedkind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics ofmusic is the most complete and universal language.
Music is history. Music usually reflects the environment and times of itscreation, often event the country and/or racial feeling.Music is physical education. It requires fantastic coordination offingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition toextraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chestmuscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mindinterprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, music is art. It allows ahuman being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult)techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing sciencecannot duplicate; humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!
Not because we expect our students to major in music
Not because we expect them to play or sing all their life
Not so they can relax
Not so they can have fun
BUT - so they will be human
so they will recognize beauty
so they will be sensitive
so they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
so they will have something to cling to
so they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good...in short, more life.
Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how tolive?
THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!

questions to ponder

If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
Why does the color blue mean raspberry-flavored?
Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
what possible band names could you come up with for your group that features a washboard and a styrofoam tuba.
You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?
Paper or briefs?
How is an ankle unlike a consequence?
Chicken monkey shoes?
what kind of spells can you cast with magic markers?
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhiod when it's in your butt?
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Why did you just try singing the two songs?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
Can you cry under water?
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out of the window?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked, anyway.
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assasssinated instead of just murdered?

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