Unfortunately, music education is often considered a luxury in both schools and families and its fundamental knowledge is reserved for only a select few. When children are exposed to a music education, too often the emphasis is placed on performance. The other areas of music such as, history, composition, listening music appreciation go largely unexplored. Educational music software is changing that tune. The growing body of educational music software available today has the to potential introduce the joys of music appreciation to a much larger group of children.
Children have the same ability to invent and write music at a very early age as they do stories.
As children gain confidence in music, composing and participating in music listening become second nature. As parents and teachers, we have an opportunity to provide our children with the tools, encouragement and excitement of learning music with the assistance of interactive software. Teaching the joy of music has never been so easy.