The development of modern society requires the application of new forms of presentation of educational content in order to build personality and form a generation of creative people. It’s necessary ...that the approach and forms of the structure of the learning process to stimulate students’ development to the maximum extent. Attracting students’ attention and stimulating their activity by presenting the learning content most effectively is a challenge for the teacher. This way, their interest should be increased and they should acquire lasting, long-term knowledge in Art music. This report presents the possibilities of consolidating and enriching students' knowledge and skills in the academic discipline Music outside the traditional music lesson. The research presents the benefit of education through music computer technology Sound Recording in a recording studio for students aged 10-16 as a part of their scheduled observation hours in extracurriculum learning environment. The aim is to increase students' interest in music as an art and to support the gaining of new knowledge. In this way, the students will be provoked to get to know their surroundings in full. At the same time, the research is an example of successful good practice to motivate and support music teachers with new practical ideas.
This study aimed to describe and understand the links between musical activities (i.e. listening, playing, attending festive events, belonging to music-based communities) and the addictive trajectory ...of homeless young adults who experience problematic psychoactive substance (PS) use. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 15 homeless young adults aged 18 to 30 years old, to explore how music modulated their addictive trajectory. A thematic and trajectory analysis were performed. Music most often constituted a tool used to control, reduce, or recover from problematic PS use, and sometimes led to the initiation of novel substances, increased consumption, and relapses. These benefits and harms varied according to specific individual and contextual factors. Almost half of the sample reported no link between music and PS use. A better comprehension of the links between music and the addictive trajectory will guide the development of adapted harm reduction interventions that account for homeless young adults’ strengths.
Music plays a key role in our evolution and contributes to the promotion of interpersonal relationships as well as enhancement of group cohesiveness. In this study, 29 five- to six-year-old preschool ...children were examined to explore the influence of passive music listening and active music engagement on their helping and sharing behaviors, compared with coloring activities. The results revealed that children’s prosocial behaviors were significantly different under the three conditions, and as compared with passive listening and coloring conditions, children’s prosocial behavior (including helping behavior and sharing behavior) in the active music engagement condition was significantly enhanced. Our research revealed that even short-duration active music engagement can improve children’s prosocial behavior, and the potential benefit of active engagement musical training for the development of preschool children should be recognized.
Present study aimed to determine efficacy of musical activities on executive functions students with educable intellectual disability. This study was a quasi-experimental method with pretest-posttest ...and a control group design. Statistical population included all students with educable intellectual disability 11-14 years of old from two exceptional schools in Karaj sity in the academic year 1395-96. 30 students were selected from the population through available sampling method and randomly allocated to either a control or experimental group (n=11). meantime the study, 4 students from experimental group and 4 from control group left the intervention(n=11). The experimental group participated at 24 group sessions of one hour musical activities 3-time per week for 8 weeks. The control group did not receive any intervention along with this period. All participants administered computerized Wisconcin Card Sorting Test (WCST), to assessing cognitive flexibility; Go/no Go Test, to assessing inhibitory control; and Digit Span Subtest of WISC-IV, to assessing working memory, befor and after the intervention. Results of data analyzing through Covariance analysis indicated that, there was no differences between post-test scores at the level of ?=0/05. This means that these musical activities program has had not a significant effect on improvement of experimental group functioning on administered executive functions tests.
Durante el año 2016 se han sucedido numerosos actos de conmemoración del cuarto centenario del fallecimiento de Miguel de Cervantes; en muchos de ellos la música ha ocupado un lugar destacado. En ...esta nota resumimos algunas de esas iniciativas, con especial atención al Festival Internacional Cervantino de Guanajuato 2016.
Infants born prematurely are considered at risk for language development delay and impairments. Using online parental reports, the present study investigated the influence of early musical experience ...in the home environment (Music@Home Infant Questionnaire) on language development (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory) while controlling for general enrichment at home (Stim-Q Cognitive Home Environment Questionnaire) and perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder (Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire). Caregivers of 117 infants between 8 and 18 months of age (corrected age) without reported developmental difficulties completed an online survey. Results revealed that the musical home environment significantly predicted outcomes in reported infants' receptive vocabulary and gestural communication, independently from infants' corrected age and general enrichment of home activities. These findings constitute the first evidence that an enriched musical experience can enhance the development of early communication skills in a population at risk for language delays, namely infants born prematurely, opening the path for future intervention research in home and/or early childcare settings. Given that the majority of participants in this study were highly educated and from socioeconomically stable backgrounds, considerations regarding the generalizability of these results are discussed.
In this research we analyze the influence of musical activities in the acquisition of mathematical knowledge and skills of a sample, 50 students from both a public and a private school in A Coruña ...(Spain), at a cognitive level. Based on a quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design, we evaluated students’ knowledge acquisition; we worked with musical activities related to mathematics in the experimental group (EG), and with traditional mathematical activities in the control group (CG). We used a questionnaire that the teachers completed before and after putting the activities into practice, after collecting—writing daily field notes—the mathematical knowledge acquired by the students. The results indicate that there are significant differences between the pretest and the posttest, between CG and EG, but there are no differences between public and concerted schools. In short, it is concluded that music represents an excellent tool in mathematical learning.
Background
Fear of childbirth is a prevalent issue among women, with a wide range of interventions to dispel it. Here we explored a novel and beneficial intervention and one possible influence ...mechanism of it.
Methods
The cross-sectional study recruited 1,053 pregnant women from one tertiary-grade A class hospital between March to August 2021. The questionnaire included demographic characteristics, a self-made musical activities questionnaire, the Positive affect subscale, and the Childbirth Attitudes Questionnaire. We parceled the eight musical activities into three items by item parceling methodology. The associations of musical activities and positive affect with fear of childbirth were evaluated by a structural equation modeling approach.
Results
Our analyses demonstrated the effectiveness of musical activities, which was notably correlated with the increase in positive affect (β = 0.309,
P
< 0.01). On the contrary, positive affect predicted a decrease in fear of childbirth (β = −0.085,
P
= 0.019). Additionally, positive affect mediated the effect of musical activities on fear of childbirth (β = −0.026,
P
= 0.030). However, the direct effect of musical activities on fear of childbirth was not found (β = 0.029,
P
= 0.514).
Conclusions
Relying on musical activities alone may not be adequate to alleviate the fear of childbirth, and positive affect played a pivotal role between musical activities and fear of childbirth. The results showed that musical activities would be an effective non-pharmaceutical way to alleviate the fear of childbirth and positive affect can not be ignorant in future childbirth fear reduction programs.
Adult musicians show superior neural sound discrimination when compared to nonmusicians. However, it is unclear whether these group differences reflect the effects of experience or preexisting neural ...enhancement in individuals who seek out musical training. Tracking how brain function matures over time in musically trained and nontrained children can shed light on this issue. Here, we review our recent longitudinal event‐related potential (ERP) studies that examine how formal musical training and less formal musical activities influence the maturation of brain responses related to sound discrimination and auditory attention. These studies found that musically trained school‐aged children and preschool‐aged children attending a musical playschool show more rapid maturation of neural sound discrimination than their control peers. Importantly, we found no evidence for pretraining group differences. In a related cross‐sectional study, we found ERP and behavioral evidence for improved executive functions and control over auditory novelty processing in musically trained school‐aged children and adolescents. Taken together, these studies provide evidence for the causal role of formal musical training and less formal musical activities in shaping the development of important neural auditory skills and suggest transfer effects with domain‐general implications.
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