Music makes the difference.
Contributors: MENC, the National Association for Music Education (U.S.)
Publisher: MENC, the National Association for Music Education
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Reston, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: School music -- Instruction and study; Brain -- Growth; Cognition in children; Academic achievement
Other titles: Music, brain development, and learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-141) and directory of Web sites (p. 142-144)
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Advocacy. Talking points / Ardene Shafer and Michael Blakeslee ; Straight talk about music and brain research / Ella Wilcox ; Research linking music and intelligence: helpful or harmful to the string teaching profession / Laura Reed Racin; title: Music and young children. Lessons of the music womb / Norman M. Weinberger ; Recent brain research on young children / John Flohr, Daniel C. Miller, and Diane C. Persellin ; The effect of music training on preschoolers' spatial-temporal task performance / Joyce Eastlund Gromko and Allison Smith Poorman; title: Academic achievement. SAT scores of student in the arts / Sue Rarus ; The effects of three years of piano instruction on children's cognitive development / Eugenia Costa-Giomi ; Involvement in the arts and human development: general involvement and intensive involvement in music and theater arts / James S. Catterall; title: The intrinsic value of music education. Growing up complete: the imperative for music education / National Commission on Music Education ; Facing the risks of the "Mozart effect" / Bennett Reimer; title: Resources. Annotated bibliography: Music, brain development, and learning / Wendy L. Sims and Cathi C. Wilson ; Web sites / Sue Rarus