Music Education and Childhood Brain Development - EduGuide. By Annette Kingsbury In Disney's movie "Fantasia," inanimate objects seem to come to life to the strains of some powerful classical music.
Though it's only a cartoon, some researchers are now asking the question: Does music have some "magic" powers to turn on the brain? Can people wondering how to deal with depression use music as a tool? And if so, what kind of music? How Music Helps Brain Development in Infants. 10 Ways music benefits children. They say that music is the universal language.
Regardless of where you are from or what your background, a good melody is something that everyone can enjoy and understand. There must be something behind that, right? 5 Reasons why Music Helps with Language Learning. Turn up the tunes to boost your language learning Guest post by Mireille Fiset Everybody loves music.
7 reasons why you should sing to learn languages. Language Learning Tip: Use Music to Learn a Foreign Language. In early December I was pleased to be able to meet today’s guest author Susanna Zaraysky for lunch here in Istanbul.
Susanna is an accomplished language learner and a bit of an expert in using music to learn languages – something I haven’t done a lot of. I am excited to have her share her expertise with us today. The Sixties and Protest Music. Women and the Music Industry in the 1970s. The evolution of music: How genres rise and fall over time. Music Timeline. In 1991, Rap Changed Pop Music Forever. On June 22, 1991, Billboard announced a new album had surpassed Out of Time, by R.E.M., to become the most popular in the country.
It was Niggaz4life, by N.W.A., which had debuted the previous week at number 2 and sold nearly a million copies in its first seven days. Billboard had published an album chart for 45 years, but this marked a historic week: It was the first time that a rap group claimed the top spot on the Billboard 200. For several years, music historians have considered this, the consecration of rap on mainstream music charts, the watershed moment in modern music, marking the death of hard rock and the dawn of a period where hip-hop has merged with several genres, including country, dance, and even alt-rock, to become the modern sound of pop.
Now the theory gets some quantitative cred. History of Classical Music - Eras. This is the first period where we can begin to be fairly certain as to how a great deal of the music which has survived actually sounded.
The earliest written secular music dates from the 12th century troubadours (in the form of virelais, estampies, ballades, etc.), but most notated manuscripts emanate from places of learning usually connected with the church, and therefore inevitably have a religious basis. Gregorian chant and plainsong which are monodic (i.e. written as one musical line) gradually developed during the 11th to 13th centuries into organum (i.e. two or three lines moving simultaneously but independently, therefore almost inadvertently representing the beginnings of harmony).
Organum was, however, initially rather stifled by rigid rules governing melody and rhythm, which led ultimately to the so-called Ars Nova period of the 14th century, principally represented by the composers de Vitry, Machaut, and Landini.