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Researchers Suggest New Models for Music Education

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preteens and teenagers today are involved in music in ways that never could have been imagined 50 years ago. Yet America’s secondary school music education programs remain strikingly similar to those of five ...





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Adolescents involved with music do better in school

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on readin ...


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ASIMO Robot to Conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 24, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

ASIMO will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs "Impossible Dream" to open a ...


Musical sensibility can help shape teaching, research education

Musical sensibility can help shape teaching, research education

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The underlying similarities between teaching, research and music can be a powerful metaphor for education and qualitative inquiry, according to a University of Illinois professor of education.


Blinkx adds music video search tool

Blinkx adds music video search tool

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online video search engine blinkx launched a new tool Tuesday to find and watch music videos on the Internet.


Chinese site to steer users to legit music source

Technology / Internet

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A free and legal song download service says it now will be getting traffic from China's largest search engine, which is trying to reduce online music piracy.


New iPod listening study shows surprising behavior of teens

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods ...


Music tuition can help children improve reading skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically ...


Music may have a future role in heart and stroke patient rehab

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blood flow and respiratory rates can synch with music, indicating that music could one day be a therapeutic tool for blood pressure control and rehabilitation, according to a study by Italian researchers published in Circulation: Jo ...


Music makes you smarter

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.


The new myths of gifted education (w/ Podcast)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

More than 25 years after myths about gifted education were first explored, they are all still with us and new ones have been added, according to research published in the current Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ), the official journa ...



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