Week 6- Music Concepts through listening and playing

This week we took a break from Vis Arts and moved into our 3 weeks of Music!
One of the topics covered in the lecture the importance of music and its need to be in the curriculum.
Reasons covered included:

• How meaning is constructed in our lives
• Provides opportunities to explore our values
• All the benefits from learning to read the language 
• Development of the whole person

These provides a clear need for having music as a part of the curriculum, however other reasons are present. In  an article for the Guardian (UK) from 2006 lists other reasons such as:

• "it improves children's health and wellbeing,"
• "Learning to play an instrument has a clear impact on improving intelligence" (Susan Hallam)
• "Music exerts a powerful impact on our lives and is as important for a well-rounded education as reading, writing and maths." (Susan Hallam)

So it seems that studying music leads to as higher developed child than we though. If it does help raise intelligence, help us explore who we are and increase our overall development then music is an integral part of a child's education!