/View.info/ Regardless of the fact that the child sings children’s songs falsely and has no hearing; regardless of the fact that there is no place to put the piano and his grandmother cannot take the child “to the piano”; regardless of the fact that the child does not have time for any more lessons, because he already goes to English, Spanish, swimming, ballet, etc… There are important reasons to overcome all this and still engage in music.
And modern parents should know these reasons:
1. To play – it means to follow the traditions. All European aristocrats studied music. To play music is style, glamor and chic, the apotheosis of worldly manners.
2. Music lessons develop willpower and discipline: a tool is mastered with constant practice, regularly and without gaps. Winter and summer, weekdays and holidays. Almost with the same tenacity with which the champions train in the gym.
Unlike heroes in sports, however, you can’t break your neck, leg, or even arm playing the piano. Music – this is character education without the risk of trauma, which is important for strict parents.
3. By playing music, the child develops mathematical abilities. It thinks spatially, pressing the necessary keys, handling abstract sound figures, memorizing the notes and knows that in the musical piece as in the mathematical proof – you neither remove nor add anything!
It is no coincidence that Einstein played the violin, and professors of physics and mathematics at Oxford make up 70% of the composition of the university music club.
4. Music and language are twin brothers. They were born one after another – first the bigger one – music, then – the smaller one – verbal speech, and in our brain they continue to live side by side. Phrases and sentences, commas and periods, questions and exclamations are found in both music and speech.
Musicians and singers speak and write better, remember foreign words more easily, learn grammar faster. The music lovers and writers Turgenev and Stendhal, Pasternak and Tolstoy, Rousseau and Romain Rolland, each of whom knew more than one foreign language, recommend music to all future polyglots.
5. Music is structural and hierarchical: large works are broken down into smaller parts, which in turn are divided into smaller themes and fragments consisting of small phrases and motifs.
Psychologists have proven that young musicians, students of the famous Shinichi Suzuki, even if they did not succeed too much in the development of musical hearing and memory, they were ahead of their peers at the level of structural thinking.
Music leads directly to the pinnacle of computer science; it is no coincidence that Microsoft prefers employees with a musical background.
6. Music classes develop communication habits or as we call them communication habits today. During the years of study, the child musician gets to know the gallant and friendly Mozart, the energetic and athletic Prokofiev, the wise and philosophical Bach and many other different musical personalities.
Playing, he has to reincarnate and present to the audience their character, feelings, voice, gestures. And he is one step away from the talent of the businessman, for whom the most important thing is to find a common language with people.
7. Musicians are soft-hearted and at the same time masculine. As psychologists say, male musicians are as sensual as ladies, and female musicians are as tough and tough as men.
Music softens the temper, but to succeed you must be manly. Children who have been involved in music are more patient and empathetic.
8. Music classes teach a person to “turn on on command”. Musicians are less afraid of the dreaded word deadline. At the music school, you can’t cancel the scale exam and the class concert for tomorrow or next week.
The position of the artist on the stage teaches maximum readiness “to order”, and the child with such experience will not fail a serious exam, a job interview and a responsible presentation. Music lessons in childhood – this is maximum organization and artistry for a lifetime.
9. Music lessons raise little “Caesars”, able to multitask. Music helps them navigate several simultaneous processes: like a pianist reading from a sheet, he does several things at the same time – remembers the past, looks into the future and controls the present.
The music flows at its own pace, and the reader from the sheet cannot stop, rest, and be distracted. Music teaches a person to think and live in several directions.
Just like an air traffic controller, an EIM operator or a stockbroker monitors multiple screens and simultaneously listens and transmits information on multiple phones. The child musician more easily runs along several paths of life and everywhere arrives first.
10. Music is the best path to success in life. It is no coincidence that many celebrities have a musical background. Look at successful people in any field, ask them if they did not play music in their childhood, even if only briefly, and even without much enthusiasm. Of course they were busy.
And as far-sighted and caring parents, we have good reason to follow their inspiring example.
• Agatha Christie in her first story writes why she finds it difficult to play the piano on stage.
• Condoleezza Rice, on the contrary, most of all likes to play in front of an audience in her dazzling white concert dress, and Bill Clinton is sure that without the saxophone he would never have become president.
• Albert Einstein first picked up his violin when he was six years old. At 14, he performed Beethoven and Mozart sonatas and spent long hours improvising on the piano. Throughout his life, Einstein remained a passionate violinist, always turning to music in moments of creative stagnation. Of his passions for music and physics, he says: “Both have one source and complement each other…” It is possible that Einstein’s unusually powerful intellect was the result of his love of the classics.
Author: Dina Kirnarskaya – musicologist, music psychologist, professor, doctor of art studies, doctor of psychology.
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