Music Learning Enhances All Learning

09/07/2017

Music Learning Enhances All Learning

It helps to notice if there is any of [our work] that we dread to do, and if there is, then study that thing and find some way to do it differently.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957, diarist and journalist

"Research has found that learning music facilitates learning other subjects and enhances skills that children inevitably use in other areas," asserts Laura Lewis Brown in her article, "The Benefits of Music Education."

Brown quotes Mary Luehrisen, Executive Director of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) on the benefits of music making as follows: "A music-rich experience for children of singing, listening and moving is really bringing a very serious benefit to children as they progress into more formal learning." Brown also quotes Kenneth Guilmartin, cofounder of an early childhood music development program for infants through kindergartners: "Making music involves more than the voice or fingers playing an instrument; a child learning about music has to tap into multiple skill sets, often simultaneously. For instance, people use their ears and eyes, as well as large and small muscles...Music learning supports all learning."

Source: "The Benefits of Music Education," by Laura Lewis Brown, PBS Parents

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