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Bibliography: “The benefits of musical education” Details about the article: Author: Laura Lewis Brown Title: The benefits of musical education Publication: Children and Parents Journal Date of publication: 2013 Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits-of-music-education/ The main idea of the article “The benefits of musical education” is how music works on children’s development and what opportunities have music .According to this article music helps to work the small muscles as ears and eyes and child gets rich experience from listening music. As Guilmartin says “Music learning supports all learning. Not that Mozart makes you smarter, but it’s a very integrating, stimulating pastime or activity «It means that music helps to better assimilate information of all lessons. Listening music and playing on instruments influence on language development, brain and spatial-temporal skills of children. Also it increase IQ, improve test scores. Firstly, studies have found that musical training physically develops the part of the left side of the brain which responsible for language and can actually wires the brain’s circuits in different ways. Also the author emphasizes that it is very important for small kids on age of 1-5 to listen the music, it helps better memorize the words. Secondly child’s brain works harder. . Recent studies show that children who listen to music improve sound discrimination and fine motor tasks and there are some positive changes to the networks in the brain. Thirdly, listening music increase IQ.” The children who were given music lessons over the school year tested on average three IQ points higher than the other groups». It means that music is very important in development of children. In addition it influence on spatial-temporal skills. Research also found out the link between music and spatial intelligence. Listening music helps children to visualize different elements which should go together and be the same. Moreover it improve test scores. It is demonstrated by Christopher Johnson that children in elementary school with musical education get 22 percent higher in English and 20 present higher in math than schools which don’t have musical education. To sum up, the author highlights that music improve child’s abilities and skills and it makes child happy and smart will come later. I found this article very useful, because I read many advantages of listening music and playing an instruments for kids, especially how music influence on their aspiration to work hard and increase IQ. Also it is academic reliable article which was written by famous researchers as E. Glenn Schulenburg and according to issue of Psychological Science .This article provides logical arguments of one side, but very strong arguments. The goal of this source is to prove that music learning supports all learning and develop children different skills. I think that music really does children better. They develop spiritually and morally. Many children while doing homework listen to music and it helps to do homework. Music brings a variety in study. I consider that parents have to send children to music school. They will develop and open for themselves new skills and spheres .It is quite good when child can mix school education and music education.