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BENEFITS OF MUSIC EDUCATION

Music makes us calm depending on what kind of genre of music we listen to. For thousands of years, music has been part of a culture for some ethnic. There are many uses of music towards human, nowadays music play an important role in our life. For instance, music have been part of education program for its benefits to us which music able to develop the brain, increased our creativity, build a link between music and spatial intelligence, and builds a positive attitude. Firstly, through music we are able to develop our brain. Because, early musical training will helps the development of brain in certain areas like language and reasoning. This is because, the brain development continues for many years after birth. For example, the recent study showed that musical training physically will develops the left side of the brain which the processing language occurred and its actually wire the brains circuits into specific ways. When a young pianist play a song that sounds familiar to her or him, it will help to imprint the information on the pianist. Secondly, it builds a link between music and spatial intelligence. Thus, the ability to perceive the world accurately and it will learn to form mental pictures of things. For this type of people, they are able to visualize various elements that should go together. In other word, its a sort of thinking that needed to solve advanced mathematics problems. Children that exposed to music in their early age will definitely help them to pack a book-pack with everything that needed for that day. Third, it will increase our creativity. This is mainly because, by learning music we will think creatively through imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. We get this kind of thinking, because in art of music do not have only one right answer and it can be more than one answer. For example, when we listen to Claude Debussys music like Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 1894 and surely, lots of thought will pop out. Debussys music known as a music that drowned the sense of tonality and it make the listener harder to describe his music. From there we can see that the creativity can be increased through music.

Fourth, through music we are able to build a positive attitude in ourselves. Recent study showed that those who are exposed to music will have an internal glimpse of other cultures and from there, it teaches them to be empathetic towards the people in some cultures. But, the question is how do they learn it from music? Lets take an example, an acoustic guitar player from Malaysia and he plays various genre of music. Before he started to play a piece of music, he must know the origin of the songs so that, he have the idea about the songs that he going to perform and in the same time the process of understanding the culture also involved. A piece of music usually related to their origin, for example Classical guitar music related to Italy and from there the guitarist will learn about the culture which in Italy guitar have been part of their culture. Thus, from there we can conclude that we learn music but in the same time we also learn the culture through the pieces of music and anything positive about the music we can apply it into our life. In conclusion, music provides us lots of benefit towards human and there is no doubt about the use of music in education. Furthermore, music can change the atmosphere; bring hope, delivering messages through music composition and many more.

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