Arts Integration. What’s the Problem? Brittany Nixon May1 Brittany May, Music Department, The University of Utah, 1374 East President’s Circle, 204 David P. Gardner Hall, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA E-mail: brittany.may@utah.edu Abstract Arts integration has been a popular topic for many years. Music educators often find arts integration to be challenging, because it requires a great deal of time, necessitates collaboration with other teachers, and can unfortunately promote bias of one subject over another. However, integrating music with other subjects can offer many benefits to both students and teachers.
Article Notes Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. . © 2013 National Association for Music Education. Sound Stories for General Music. Audrey Berger Cardany1 Audrey Berger Cardany, The Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, 1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA. Email: audrey.cardany@jhu.edu Abstract Language and music literacy share a similar process of understanding that progresses from sensory experience to symbolic representation. The author identifies Bruner’s modes of understanding as they relate to using narrative in the music classroom to enhance music reading at iconic and symbolic levels.
Two sound stories are included for preschool-age children and for students in elementary grades. Article Notes Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. . © 2013 National Association for Music Education. Making Music, Reaching Readers. Enhancing Language Skills Through Music. Researchers and practitioners recognize that musical activities reinforce many aspects of language development. Chanting and rhythmic speaking, singing, and listening are all experiences that support language development.
This article describes language-enhancing activities in those three areas and explains how they strengthen language development. Activities involving chanting and rhythmic speaking are helpful in the practice of elements of speech that parallel musical elements and in the exploration of oral reading skills. The singing and chanting activities provide practice in rhythm, form, dynamics, and mood, which are concepts and skills common to language and music. A Harmonious Duet. Play Me a Picture, Paint Me a Song: Integrating Music Learning with Visual Art. Arts Education Partnership : : Music Matters. Music Matters: How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve, and Succeed (2011) Beyond the intrinsic value of music to cultures worldwide, education in music has benefits for young people that transcend the musical domain. In this bulletin, the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) reviewed an extensive body of research to identify high-quality, evidence-based studies that document student learning outcomes associated with an education in and through music.
Music Matters: How Music Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve and Succeed was prepared by the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) with support from the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium. Music Matters shows conclusively that: music education equips students to learn; music education facilitates student academic achievement; and music education develops the creative capacities for lifelong success. Order This Publication Now Download Free PDF Version. Music on the Mind — www.edweek.org. The power of music: Its impact on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. This paper reviews the empirical evidence relating to the effects of active engagement with music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people.
It draws on research using the most advanced technologies to study the brain, in addition to quantitative and qualitative psychological and educational studies. It explains how musical skills may transfer to other activities if the processes involved are similar. It explores the evidence relating to the impact of musical skills on language development, literacy, numeracy, measures of intelligence, general attainment, creativity, fine motor co-ordination, concentration, self-confidence, emotional sensitivity, social skills, team work, self-discipline, and relaxation. It suggests that the positive effects of engagement with music on personal and social development only occur if it is an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
This has implications for the quality of the teaching. © The Author(s) 2010. The Music And Neuroimaging Lab | Welcome. Does Music Instruction Aid Academic Skills? General Music Todaygmt.sagepub.com doi: 10.1177/104837139601000108 General Music Today Fall 1996 vol. 10 no. 1 24-27 The first page of the PDF of this article appears below. Click image below to view at full size. Current Trends in Jazz Education - By Lee Mergner. How has the economic downturn affected the quality and quantity of applications to your program? Todd Coolman (Director of Jazz Studies, Purchase College/SUNY) It is difficult to measure. Both the quality and quantity of applications to our program have increased steadily over the past several years. It is likely due to the growing reputation and quality of our program, but economics could be playing a role as our tuition is quite low as compared to other metro NYC jazz programs. Dr. Wayne E. Goins (Director of Jazz, Professor of Music, Kansas State University) It has had a positive affect on my jazz program.
Martin Mueller (Executive Director, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music) We've obviously been monitoring this carefully and thus far at The New School we are resilient in spite of the tough economic times. David Roitstein (Jazz Program Director, California Institute of the Arts) The quality and quantity of applications to our program has been consistently high. Dr. Dr. The Journal for Music-In-Education (JMIE) - MIENC Publications. Music Education Advocacy Articles. Future of Music Coalition | Education, Research and Advocacy for Musicians. Nonmusicol Effects of the Kodaly Music Curriculum in Primary Grade Children.