Greetings from ReHearsal House Nigeria.

Benefits of Music &
Movement.

(Nation building through music)

Today we know more about how children learn
and grow than ever before. Today we have data to
confirm our hunch that "Music is vital to life."

Read what experts in their fields think about the
benefits of music and movement:

"Music brings people together. Through music,
children take an inner experience and move it into a
shared creative experience. Group music-making
releases energy which can be channeled in creative,
productive directions. Children learn about
themselves and others by playing music together and
by listening to each other — tapping into hidden
courage that can be played out by singing together or
discovering the inner resources to listen quietly to
another child's playing."
Judi Bosco
Board Certified Music Therapist


"Resiliency — to bounce back after a disturbing event
— is not something we are born with; it must be
learned and sometimes that takes many years. There
is no vehicle more joyful and playful for providing
such training than early childhood music and
movement."
Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D.
Neuroscience Educator


"A rich voice opens the ear and gives energy to the
nervous system. Not only does it help children
process and memorize the message, but it also
increases their desire to listen more, learn more, and
know more. A good voice fills the cognitive and
emotional brain."
Paul Madaule
Founder and Director
The Listening Centre


"Speech and music have a number of shared
processing systems. Musical experiences which
enhance processing can therefore impact on the
perception of language which in turn impacts on
learning to read ."
Susan Hallam
Institute of Education
University of London


Noted author and neuroscience educator Jane
Healy speaks about children whose parents have
chosen more "academic" pursuits for their
children:
"Studies show that 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds in heavily
"academic" classes tend to become less creative and
more anxious - without gaining significant
advantages over their peers."
Jane M. Healy
Your Child's Growing Mind


And, if everything else were not convincing
enough...

A 2007 poll found that 88% of all post-graduate
students in college and 83% of all people earning
$150,000 or more had extensive music training.
Poll, November 14, 2007
Reuters, Ltd.


Why Music and Movement are
Vital for Children:

Peanut butter and jelly, socks and shoes, bats and
balls, hide and seek, music and children — are all
elements of childhood. Children are naturally
interested in music, and music is naturally good
for children. Why is music so attractive to children
and why is music so well suited to children?
• Music is a language, and children are oriented
toward learning language.
• Music evokes movement, and children delight in
and require movement for their development
and growth.
• Music engages the brain while stimulating
neural pathways associated with such higher
forms of intelligence as abstract thinking,
empathy, and mathematics.
• Music's melodic and rhythmic patterns provide
exercise for the brain and help develop
memory. Who among us learned the ABC's
without the ABC song?
• Music is an aural art and young children are
aural learners. Since ears are fully mature
before birth, infants begin learning from the
sounds of their environment before birth.
• Music is perfectly designed for training
children's listening skills. Good listening skills
and school achievement go hand in hand.
• Developmentally appropriate music activities
involve the whole child-the child's desire for
language, the body's urge to move, the brain's
attention to patterns, the ear's lead in initiating
communication, the voice's response to
sounds, as well as the eye-hand coordination
associated with playing musical instruments.
• Music is a creative experience which involves
expression of feelings. Children often do not
have the words to express themselves and need
positive ways to release their emotions.
• Music transmits culture and is an avenue by
which beloved songs, rhymes, and dances can
be passed down from one generation to
another.
• Music is a social activity which involves family
and community participation. Children love to
sing and dance at home, school, and at church.

As published in Early Childhood Connections.

"we hold that music is the most sublime arrangements of sounds in a manner that pleases the ears, entertains by MUSE, feeds love, feeds the soul and glorifies God." -ReHearsal House philosophy of music.

"Let me make the music of a Nation and I care not who makes its laws." - Plato.

For further information about how you can extend
the benefits of music and movement to children in
your area,
contact us:
08067690849, 08037302976. rehearsalhousenigeria@gmail.com. www.rehearsalhouse..com

ReHearsal House Nigeria is a research Academy of applied music & performing Arts.

#1 Okpoko Avenue off ahunwa Junction off adolor college road ugbowo Benin city Edo State Nigeria.

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