Music has the power to stimulate our minds.
When you listen to instrumental music your mind starts to create a story about
what you are listening. The same thing happens when playing instruments, your
brain works to tell a story without words.
2. Education&music... Success!
On the one hand, music is a great tool for memorization. If we ever want our pupils to learn, for example, a list of words, it would be easier if we use a song instead of repeating one time and another the same list of words (who will forget the famous “head, shoulders, knees and toes; knees and toes…”)
2. Education&music... Success!
On the one hand, music is a great tool for memorization. If we ever want our pupils to learn, for example, a list of words, it would be easier if we use a song instead of repeating one time and another the same list of words (who will forget the famous “head, shoulders, knees and toes; knees and toes…”)
To test out this affirmation, we invite you to
listen to this song once or twice and check if you can remember it after a few
minutes.
On the other hand, music can transmit some
different emotions or conducts to the children. It is a good idea, if one day
you go into your class and your pupils are altered or decentralized, to play
instrumental music to calm them down.
Unfortunately, some forms of music can
influence children in negative ways through their lyrics, so we must take care
of this when we choose the songs that we want our students to listen to.
3. Music
is the language of the Universe. It can make you feel any emotion.
Through music, you can tell stories to anyone,
even if they are on the other side of the planet and you both don’t speak the
same language: music transcends all boundaries of communication. No one knows
exactly why this happens, but in general people agree that emotions pertain to
certain scales, chords and harmonies.
Music can whisk you away on an extended
journey. Music can make time feel frozen. Music also has the power to suggest
movement. All these things deal with the human senses.
We have created a video to prove if this is
true, so we invite you to watch it and comment below the emotions and feelings
that each melody has made you feel.
For us, the results were:
Song 1: calm
Song 2: anguish
Song 3: good vibes
Song 4: sadness
Song 5: fear
Song 6: hurry
