Mary Rashid, for one, salutes Rauscher's findings but isn't surprised by them. Rashid oversees the music program at Royal Oak's Shrine High School, which enrolls more than 400 students in grades 7 - 12. They know how to express themselves. They're the school leaders, the ones who are motivated to become involved in things. She has seen Rauscher's theory played out in her own family.
Kids develop that kind of patterning by studying music.
They learn how to decode. That's really what reading music is. And they learn how to communicate it to others in logical patterns. Southfield piano teacher Maryann Abramsohn agrees. She was valedictorian of her high school class.