Should Musical Education be a Necessary Part of the School Curriculum?
Harris Ishtiaq Ahmed
Lahore School of Economics
If there is anything that dates as far back as mankind itself, it is music. With Wallin et al. (2001) suggesting musical instruments to have existed for at least 55,000 years, music precedes the vast majority of the modern fields of study and practice including Physics, Chemistry, Sociology, Math and even Philosophy. It is believed to have existed prior to the vast dispersal of humans around the world and is a pertaining feature in every known culture; past and present. With each culture possessing it’s own unique music and variation of instruments, it is unsurprising to see that people hold the music of their region in high esteem. Despite the universality of this activity, it …show more content…
The object of this essay is to discuss the positive socio-cultural, physical, cognitive and emotional characteristics of being adept in playing an instrument or being able to sing while comparing the various dimensions of an music-incorporating educational institution with a non-musical one. This would serve the purpose to answer whether or not musical education should be a necessary part of the …show more content…
It, however, seems that students who have music training actually perform better while doing mathematics. Cheek & Smith, (1999) performed a study that used the Iowa test of Basic Skills to test young musicians and non-musicians. The 8th graders who received two years of music lessons performed better on the mathematics portion of their test on average as compared to the non-musically trained
Harris Ishtiaq Ahmed
Lahore School of Economics
If there is anything that dates as far back as mankind itself, it is music. With Wallin et al. (2001) suggesting musical instruments to have existed for at least 55,000 years, music precedes the vast majority of the modern fields of study and practice including Physics, Chemistry, Sociology, Math and even Philosophy. It is believed to have existed prior to the vast dispersal of humans around the world and is a pertaining feature in every known culture; past and present. With each culture possessing it’s own unique music and variation of instruments, it is unsurprising to see that people hold the music of their region in high esteem. Despite the universality of this activity, it …show more content…
The object of this essay is to discuss the positive socio-cultural, physical, cognitive and emotional characteristics of being adept in playing an instrument or being able to sing while comparing the various dimensions of an music-incorporating educational institution with a non-musical one. This would serve the purpose to answer whether or not musical education should be a necessary part of the …show more content…
It, however, seems that students who have music training actually perform better while doing mathematics. Cheek & Smith, (1999) performed a study that used the Iowa test of Basic Skills to test young musicians and non-musicians. The 8th graders who received two years of music lessons performed better on the mathematics portion of their test on average as compared to the non-musically trained