When children take up instruments they're not passionate about, most don't stick with music for long, and that's a shame.
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Researchers who looked at over 110,000 students found that learning an instrument in elementary school, and continuing music study into high school, significantly improves school achievement.
The Suzuki method can work, but requires a high level of parental involvement.
What kind of students are we raising when music is seen as a "frill?" The decision to drastically cut music education is a misguided policy.
Nagging or bribing a child to practise their musical instrument only makes the activity feel like a chore. Here's how to support your child and bring back harmony to the whole family.
Children with difficulty singing can be labelled as 'nonmusical' by parents, teachers and pop culture. This toxic idea of 'talent' can deprive people of music's benefits for the rest of their lives.
Several brain regions engage in an amazing symphony to produce music. What then are the benefits of music training on a child?
A focus on core subjects for 16-year-olds should not exclude arts, music or drama.
The majority of music education teachers in American schools are white, and education focuses on Western classical music. What impact does it have?
Even poor, badly resourced schools can perform well when teachers, the education department, parents and a school's broader community work together.
A systematic review of 199 international studies suggests that arts education remains a moot point.
Technological advances in music production have all but obliterated the need for popular music to be transcribed into musical notation. So why is musical literacy still important?
Not all children move through the same range of processes when they compose music – but those processes, in themselves, nurture important human qualities.
There are those who believed that BB King wasn't the world's greatest guitar player, including the man himself.
If the brain processes words and mathematical symbols differently, why not musical symbols too?
Aspects of Whiplash are implausible – but it does reflect the real and insidious bullying culture that exists in music education.
We rightly marvel at the skills of a talented musician, especially witnessing them perform live. But how does someone become so skilled? Obviously hours and hours of dedicated practice is a necessity…
Whiplash, the new film written and directed by American Damien Chazelle, is billed as a drama about an ambitious young drummer and his terrifying teacher. The older teacher is said to “discover” the 19…
Yesterday, Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Arts Minister George Brandis announced A$594,000 in funding for a new national music teachers mentorship program. The details have sent music…
The urge to make new music is alive and well among young people in the UK, but not always using conventional instruments in the classroom or school orchestra. A new survey of music education has found…
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