TY  - BOOK
ED  - MENC, the National Association for Music Education (U.S.)
TI  - Music makes the difference
SN  - 1565451295
AV  - MT1 .M98 2000
PY  - 2000///]
CY  - Reston, VA
PB  - MENC, the National Association for Music Education
KW  - School music
KW  - Instruction and study
KW  - Brain
KW  - Growth
KW  - Cognition in children
KW  - Academic achievement
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-141) and directory of Web sites (pages 142-144); Foreword; -- Advocacy. Talking points; / Ardene Shafer and Michael Blakeslee; Straight talk about music and brain research; / Ella Wilcox; Research linking music and intelligence: helpful or harmful to the string teaching profession; / Laura Reed Racin; -- Music and young children. Lessons of the music womb; / Norman M. Weinberger; Recent brain research on young children; / John Flohr, Daniel C. Miller, and Diane C. Persellin; The effect of music training on preschoolers' spatial-temporal task performance; / Joyce Eastlund Gromko and Allison Smith Poorman; -- Academic achievement. SAT scores of student in the arts; / Sue Rarus; The effects of three years of piano instruction on children's cognitive development; / Eugenia Costa-Giomi; Involvement in the arts and human development: general involvement and intensive involvement in music and theater arts; / James S. Catterall; -- The intrinsic value of music education. Growing up complete: the imperative for music education; / National Commission on Music Education; Facing the risks of the "Mozart effect"; / Bennett Reimer; -- Resources. Annotated bibliography: Music, brain development, and learning; / Wendy L. Sims and Cathi C. Wilson; Web sites; / Sue Rarus
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