25 Facts About Music education

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Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors.

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Music education is a research area in which scholars do original research on ways of teaching and learning music.

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Music education scholars publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals, and teach undergraduate and graduate education students at university education or music schools, who are training to become music teachers.

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Many music education curriculums incorporate the usage of mathematical skills as well fluid usage and understanding of a secondary language or culture.

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Music training from preschool through post-secondary education is common because involvement with music is considered a fundamental component of human culture and behavior.

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The Orff Schulwerk approach to music education leads students to develop their music abilities in a way that parallels the development of western music.

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Gordon Music education Learning Theory provides the music teacher with a method for teaching musicianship through audiation, Gordon's term for hearing music in the mind with understanding.

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Music education takes place in individualized, lifelong learning, and in community contexts.

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Music education is seen as separate from, and more fundamental than, notation.

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Music education continued to flourish with the creation of the Academy of Music in Boston.

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Music education began to spread as a curricular subject into other school districts.

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Music course offerings and even entire degree programs in online music education developed in the first decade of the 21st century at various institutions, and the fields of world music pedagogy and popular music pedagogy have seen notable expansion.

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Music education has been a prominent subject in schools and other learning institutions in Europe for many centuries.

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Institutional music education was started in colonial India by Rabindranath Tagore after he founded the Visva-Bharati University.

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Music education played a prominent role and professional musicians using a variety of wind instruments, drums and rattles to celebrate military victories.

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Music education played a prominent role in the funeral rites of the elite.

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Music education's legacy continues in modern-day Cuba where the Esteban Salas Early Music Festival is held every year in Havana.

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In Puerto Rico, there is no official music education policy governing early childhood music instruction.

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MENC: The National Association for Music Education, created nine voluntary content standards, called the National Standards for Music Education.

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Music education's created a three verse song with a non-repetitive melody; each verse with different music.

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Music education's found the repetitive music produced the highest amount of text recall, suggesting music can serve as a mnemonic device.

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Studies have shown that music education can be used to enhance cognitive achievement in students.

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Music education has shown to improve the skills of dyslexic children in similar areas as mentioned earlier by focusing on visual auditory and fine motor skills as strategies to combat their disability.

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Music education has been noted to have the ability to increase someone's overall IQ, especially in children during peak development years.

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Music education advocacy comes in many forms, some of which are based upon legitimate scholarly arguments and scientific findings, while other examples controversially rely on emotion, anecdotes, or unconvincing data.

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