The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111084   Message #2357406
Posted By: black walnut
04-Jun-08 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Children's Music and Pre-Literacy
Subject: RE: Children's Music and Pre-Literacy
"Focus, personal attention, order, and increase in attention span." and if that was ALL there was, wouldn't that be wonderful! And to think there's more!

There was a show on TV last week - a David Suziki look at music and the brain. Pretty interesting what the brain does to interpret the jiggling of a bunch of little hairs in the inner ear. Music - that touches us deeply, makes us laugh, moves us to tears, makes us feel that we belong to a community....

~b.w.