When it comes to the human brain, music lessons are one of the best medicines. Studies have continually shown that listening and playing music helps treat stress and depression. It’s not only listening to music that has a positive effect on...
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Extra arts education boosts students’ writing scores — and their compassion, big new study finds. “Arts learning experiences benefit students in terms of social, emotional, and academic outcomes,” say researchers Dan Bowen of Texas A&M...
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Check out our new “Owner’s Insight” videos at our youtube channel: Myriad Music School and Dance Academy. Discover our word for fall, ubuntu, and what it means to our music and dance school! Check out our music and dance lessons...
Read moreLearn more about the benefits of Dance and Music Lessons for Kids and Adults for you at our Music School & Dance Academy – a Peninsula favorite since 1997! Click here to see what our students and parents are saying If you are looking for...
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A new study from the University of British Colombia finds that students who take music lessons do better in math, science and English across the board. Check out the full article here.
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During the summer break We encourage our students to take it easy but it can be quite a shock to stop playing all together for three weeks and then suddenly pick back up where you left off. Even playing 1 scale or doing a run-through of your...
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When learning to sing on pitch, each child takes in the information and processes it differently. Each lesson is carefully crafted to give the kinesthetic, auditory, and visual learners opportunities to experience the lesson through their...
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A majority of educators agree that group participation can help make students become better participants in groups help develop stronger social skills improve emotional expressiveness lean more towards management improve performance in their...
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Audiation is the ability to hear music when no musical sound is present. When you audiate, you have internalized music and are “thinking” music. While progressively omitting the lyrics in a song they have learned, children are given the...
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