Music & Life: Introduction
Discover the links between Music & Life with Easy Ear Training. This innovative new series explores musical training from conception to grave. Learn how music you heard in-utero affected your...
View ArticleMusic & Life: The Unborn Child
Before you breathed fresh air, felt your first embrace, or saw your mother’s face, you existed in a symphonic amniotic cocoon. Alone in watery darkness, your tiny ears took in the steady pulsing of...
View ArticleMusic & Life: Rockin’ Rockabye Baby Lullabies
Before you rocked on your first guitar, jammed with your high school garage band, or sang your first tune, you had a passion for music. Whether you heard “Rockabye Baby”, “Esta Niña Linda,” or “Fais...
View ArticleMusic & Life: Child Development and Music
How does music benefit your child? Does music make a difference in the school or medical environment? What are some simple ways that you can add music to every day life? While the “Mozart Effect” has...
View ArticleMusic & Life: Singing and Childhood
Children love to sing. Listen to a group of schoolchildren at the playground, and you will hear a mix of imagined songs, favorite nursery rhymes, and popular tunes intermingled with giggles and...
View ArticleMusic & Life: Two New Children’s Ear Training Songs
In the last Music & Life article we looked at the role of songs in children’s musical development, and the many ways songs can be integrated into a child’s life. We’ve also looked at how lullabies...
View ArticleMusic & Life: The Special Needs Child & Technology
How can music improve the quality of life for children with special needs? Can music help the developmentally delayed child? What are the newest technology innovations in music therapy? Music can...
View ArticleMusic & Life: Learning Music Around the World
Music exists in every known culture to man. From indigenous Australian aborigines exploring nature through sound to an elementary schoolroom in Japan learning the Suzuki method to American high...
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