Marina BorodinaGeorge Mason University

Oct, 2010

Identified by H. Gardner as one of the eight multiple intelligences, Music Intelligence is present in every human at birth.

The principle “use it or lose it” is especially true of the brain. Learning becomes permanent when neurons make connections to other neurons. Listening to music stimulates the brain, increasing the neural connections. Music involvement activates more areas of the brain than any other activity.

Music is a powerful tool for language learning and retention.

Music supports, strengthens and develops brain cells and builds connections between the brain’s two hemispheres. It allows the individual to use various means, techniques and level of thinking.

Music helps us move some parts of our brain, which helps us think better.

Good atmospher

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Vocabulary

Listening skills

Grammar

Pronunciation skills

Motivation

Relaxation

When we listen to classical music, spatial thinking paths open up and get ready for use. But the effect dies out an hour after we stop listening to music. Music stimulates the brain centers that deal with thinking,

analyzing and planning.

Mozart effect is a set of research results that indicate that listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as “spatial-temporal reasoning”. Popularized versions of the theory, which suggest that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter“.

sharpens vision and hearing

helps to concentrate

improves memory

increases communicatio

nand memory

provides them with internal

discipline

gives students the capacity

to trust themselves

helps in

behavioral

treatment

Music for Concentration Music for Learning

ideal for increased focus, intellectual endurance, problem-solving, computer work, research

ideal for studying, task-orientated activities and projects, memorizing, strategizing, writing

Bach, Albinoni, Vivaldi Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, Schubert, Chopin

Music for Thinking Music to Relax

ideal for logical thought, brainstorming, writing, strategizing, organizing

ideal for physical relaxation, rest, encouraging, calm thinking, reducing hyperactivity

Beethoven, Debussy, Lawrence, Schubert, Brahms

Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Corelli, Schubert, Vivaldi

Beethoven: Symphony #5 Pachelbel: Canon in D Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 Beethoven: Fur Elise Mozart: Violin Concerto #3 Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers Schubert: Trout Quintet

“Music will not only help us understand how we think, reason, and create, but it will enable us to learn how to bring each child’s potential to its highest level”

Gordon Shaw, Co-Founder and Chairman, M.I.N.D. Institute

http://ezinearticles.com/?Teaching-English-As-A-Foreign-Language---Seven-Reasons-Why-Using-Music-Is-Important&id=1201565

http://www.suite101.com/languagestudy http://www.buzzle.com/articles/effects-of-music-on-the-

mind-and-brain.html http://www.rmlearning.com/MusicInClassroom.htmhttp://

www.advancedbrain.com/soundheath/music-for-concentration.html

- Diana Haddad, Al-Nahar newspaper, 29/7/07

1. Adagio from Piano Concerto No. 5 - Beethoven 2. Variations on Reverie - Debussy 3. Test of the Heart - Lawrence 4. Variations on Piano Concerto No. 5, Adagio - Beethoven 5. Variations on Piano Trio in Bb - Schubert 6. Reverie - Debussy 7. Andante, Piano Concerto No. 2 - Brahms 8. Andante un poco mosso, Piano Trio in Bb - Schubert 9. Meditation from "Thais" – Massenet

1. Arioso - Bach 2. Adagio from Piano Concerto No. 5 - Beethoven 3. Largo from Sonata No.3, Op. 58 - Chopin 4. Adagio from Concerto Grosso Opus 6, No. 8 - Corelli 5. Piano Trio in Bb - Schubert 6. Air from Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major - Bach 7. Concerto in Cmi BMV 1060 - Bach 8. Largo from Violin Concerto, Opus 3, No. 6 - Vivaldi 9. Traumerei - Schumann 10. Arioso - Bach

 

NTERLUDE 1 - Allegro assai from Violin Concerto No.2 - Bach INTERLUDE 2 - Largo from Viola d'Amore Concerto - Vivaldi MOVEMENT 1 - Largo form Viola d'Amore Concerto - Vivaldi INTERLUDE 3 - Largo from Viola d'Amore Concerto - Vivaldi INTERLUDE 4 - Largo from Oboe Concerto in B Flat Major - Vivaldi MOVEMENT 2 - Largo from Oboe Concerto in B Flat Major - Vivaldi INTERLUDE 5 - Adagio from Violin Concerto Opus 12, No.1 - Vivaldi MOVEMENT 3 - Adagio from Violin Concerto Opus 12, No.1 -

Schubert INTERLUDE 6 - Nature - Massenet MOVEMENT 4 - Allegro assai form Violin Concerto No.2 - Bach Arr. by

Lawrence/Leeds

1. Danse from "Tatare" - Salieri 2. Arioso - Bach 3. Andante from Violin Concerto, Opus 10, No. 5 - Albinoni 4. Largo from Concerto No. 3 for Two Violins - Bach 5. Largo from Violin Concerto, Opus 3, No. 6 - Vivaldi 6. Largo from Flute Concerto in A Minor - Vivaldi 7. Adagio from Violin Concerto, Opus 12, No.1 - Vivaldi 8. Andante from Violin Concerto, Opus 10, No. 2 - Albinoni 9. Larghetto from Conceto Grosso Opus 3, No. 8- Vivaldi 10. Largo from Concerto for Two Flutes, Opus 47, No. 2 - Vivaldi 11. Air from the "Air and Giga" - Arne 12. Gigue from Orchestral Suite No. 3 – Bach