I love music and I feel so
fortunate that all my adult life
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I have been able to be a part of
music in some professional way.
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Teaching was
such a great reward,
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watching young
children and teenagers blossom
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as a result of developing
greater music abilities.
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I saw students with a
new- found sense of well-being
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and self-worth because of music.
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Music performance and
developing the skills necessary
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for a good performance take
time, patience, and discipline.
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Those three elements can
be the most important factors
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in developing
character, and the added bonus
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of praise and appreciation
of others, helps children
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received socially
accepted attention.
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Which they need in the early
years to help develop their
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self-worth.
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Choirs and bands teach us
how to be a part of a community
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and work together in
creating something beautiful.
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Everything from finger
dexterity to spacial reasoning
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to higher cognitive skills,
these are even more benefits
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from the study of music.
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And I haven't even mentioned
the benefits of music simply
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as part of our
life, part of our soul.
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From as early as I can remember,
music was the way I interpreted
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and experienced
the world around me.
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It becomes the backdrop of all
our lives whether we aware of it
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or not. Why is it so important
in such a fiber of who we are?
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This question has
consumed generations.
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The Greek's tried to analyze
music and its effects on us
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by using mathematical formulas.
They even used equations
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to determine music that
was soothing and in tune with
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the natural world.
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And music that was mathe-
matically out of sync with
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the universe and thus
harmful to the human body.
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Some of that thought still
carries through to the research
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done today, as we try to learn
why specific pieces of music
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improve certain brain skills
and evoke certain emotions.
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I love the research that has
been done on how the music can
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alter the body chemically.
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Music and the production
of it can relieve pain,
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shorten healing times,
and even decrease tumor size.
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Intoning is a musical
practice that has proved quite
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beneficial for altering
the blood flow and antibody
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production, it's
all interesting stuff
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Still, the question can
be raised why is music so
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important? A simple
answer is God made us that way.
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Just like we were made to
not be complete without God
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in our lives, so we are
not complete unless beauty
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and music are a part of us.
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I hope these little Musical
Minds segments encourage you
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to get more involved with music,
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even if it just
singing in the shower.
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