Music lessons can bring joy, discipline and an appreciation for the arts to your child's life. But they also can be time-consuming and costly. So before signing up your child, it's best to know the ...
A cacophony of giggles and singing radiates from the room where two girls and their music teacher disconnect from the rest of the world for 30 minutes. Moments such as these are an everyday occurrence ...
Kiernan McLain (left) and Aran Robison-Oehme practice in their band class at Five Oaks Middle School in Beaverton in October. (Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian) If you've got a budding pianist, violinist ...
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), one of the world’s most well-respected music education institutions, promotes the life-long cognitive benefits that music lessons have ...
Even if you stopped going to piano lessons after middle school and no longer remember how to play Für Elise, your brain might be reaping the benefits of that early instruction. New research suggests ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2004, a paper appeared in the journal Psychological Science, titled “Music Lessons Enhance IQ.” The author, composer and University of Toronto ...
On a recent evening in a second-floor room of the University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, Joshua Pongsitiphon tries out the final chords of a funeral march on a slightly out-of-tune piano.