A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music To Listen And Learn

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Learning new things is a different experience for everyone, and some people find that certain things help them learn, so I wanted to do some research on music and learning together.

But that could mean a few different things, for instance, can music while you study or listen to a lesson help, or is it better to actually learn how to play music? Well there's research out there for both, tests done with music, music theory, and the learning of an instrument. So does music really help you learn? While there are arguments out there for both sides, evidence shows that music can really help you learn in many different ways.

Music is such a big part of everyday life that it should come as no surprise that it has some influence

Peter Perret and Janet Fox, authors of “A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen And Learn” assert that mixing live orchestral music with daily lesson plans can improve academic performance. As a music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony, Perret states "Measured by the standard state-prescribed tests of reading, writing and mathematical achievement, the children we worked with did better than expected and better than children who hadn't had their instruction blended with music." A group of students was taken and tested to see if music with the studies helped them, and the tests proved that they did better than had before. Mixing music into everyday learning can also make students more motivated to learn. Another example of mixing music into everyday lesson plans is in an article by Shelly M. Jones, who talks about a musician and a math teacher working together to come up with a lesson that integrates music and math together. Jones, who is the author of "Music: Highly Engaged Students Connect Music To Math." claims that while mixing the material with music makes it easier to learn, it also makes the students want to try harder. She states that “Students are motivated by listening to popular culture music such as Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber and clapping to the beat.” Integrating music with learning not only can make some things easier to understand, but motivates students because they’re enjoying the