Music and Band Benefits

Child Development

(Concentration, Coordination, Relaxation, Perseverance,

Self-Confidence, Music vs. Computer Skills)

Greater Brain Activity

(12 research facts only found with music)

Academic Achievement and Music

(12 articles for students of all ages)

Music and the Mind, Healing, Intelligence and Well-Being

Music and Literacy

Band students vs. non-band students

Music Improves Test Scores

Music Students Score Higher on SATs

3 Dozen Amazing Facts for Band and Orchestra Parents

College Age Musicians Are Healthier Than Non-Musician Counterparts

Band Students Have Greatest Advantage

• In an analysis of U.S. Department of Education data on more than 25,000 secondary school students (NELS:88, National Education Longitudinal Survey), researchers found that students who report consistent high levels of involvement in instrumental music over the middle and high school years show significantly higher levels of mathematics proficiency by grade 12. This observation holds regardless of students socio-economic status, and differences in those who are involved with instrumental music vs. those who are not is more significant over time. — Catterall, James S., Richard Chapleau, and John Iwanaga. Involvement in the Arts and Human Development: General Involvement and Intensive Involvement in Music and Theater Arts. Los Angeles, CA: The Imagination Project at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, 1999.

"Specifically, 48 percent of high socio-economic students (SES) students in orchestra or band performed at the highest levels in math, compared to 38.6 percent of high-SES students not involved in music. Even more striking was the group difference for the low-SES students: 33.1 percent of low-SES students in orchestra or band performed at the highest levels in math, compared to only 15.5 percent of low-SES students who were not involved in music." (SES- socio-economic status)

Band uses all four of the cortex's lobes and cerebellum

"Researchers at the University of Montreal used various brain imaging techniques to investigate brain activity during musical tasks and found that sight-reading musical scores and playing music both activate regions in all four of the cortex's lobes; and that parts of the cerebellum are also activated during those tasks."

Sergent, J., Zuck, E., Tenial, S., and MacDonall, B. (1992).

"Distributed neural network underlying musical sight

reading and keyboard performance."

Science, 257, 106-109.

In band, sight-reading, (performing a piece at first sight)

is part of our curriculum!

Benefits of Music Brochure (Music Education Facts and Figures)

Music Therapy and Benefits

Goals (Physical, Cognative, Psychological/Emotional, Social)

Research

Music Therapy Interventions

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