Music & Life: Teens, Listening, and Ear Training
Teenagers are naturally gifted when it comes to remembering music. Find out what it is about music that imprints a solid memory in teens (and adults too).
Music & Life: Learning Music Around the World
Music exists in every known culture to man. From indigenous Australian aborigines exploring nature through sound to an elementary schoolroom in Japan learning the Suzuki method to American high schoolers jamming to a hopping jazz tune in New Orleans, each cultural...
Music & Life: The Power of Rhythm
Rhythm guides your lives. From the steady rhythm of the heart pulsing life-giving blood, to the breathing in and out of oxygen necessary for survival to the simple left-right-left-right marching pace as you walk along your path, rhythm governs each second that tick,...
Music & Life: Music Matters Blog (interview)
Last time around we spoke with Joanne van de Heuvel-Berkers, founder of the Play On Education Music School in the UK, which is using aspects of play and singing to make early music education fun for children. This week we’re speaking with another expert in the...
Music & Life: Play On Education (interview)
One of the topics we’ve been looking at in Music & Life is early music learning and how you can introduce music into a child’s life in a fun and educational way. Today we’re speaking with Joanne van de Heuvel-Berkers, founder of the Play On...
Music & Life: The Special Needs Child & Technology
Music can improve the quality of life for children with physical, emotional, and psychological needs in a variety of ways. Learn exactly how in this article.
Music & Life: Two New Children’s Ear Training Songs
Here are two songs to help children learn vital musical listening skills: Froggy Interval Hop and Monkey Rhythm Dance. Download the free MP3s and sheet music.
Music & Life: Singing and Childhood
Children love to sing. Listen to a group of schoolchildren at the playground, and you will hear a mix of imagined songs, favorite nursery rhymes, and popular tunes intermingled with giggles and laughter. Making music seems hardwired to our DNA since childhood. Even as...
Music & Life: Relax with these special ear training MP3s
If you’ve been following the series so far, you’ll have learned how music can affect babies even before birth, the benefits of lullabies for young children and how early exposure to music can help in a child’s development. We’ve developed a set...
Music & Life: Child Development and Music
How does music benefit your child? Does music make a difference in schools and hospitals? What are some simple ways that you can add music to every day life?
