Music With Julie Andrews: The Importance Of Background Music

The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews, a classic musical, illustrates how music can serve as an aid to stimulate a learning experience for the children of the Von Trapps during World War II. The sound of music can also serve as a learning tool today, as most teenage students have multiple devices for listening to music. Music surrounds teenagers: “A typical student may not only have TV sets, CD players, and computers with Internet at home, they may also have cell phones...where they can listen to music...while performing their homework.” (Tze and Chou 36). Many students have background music playing while studying or completing homework assignments and the type of music affects a student's performance. Various types of background music affect a student's concentration, academic performance, and arousal levels. Music has been a significant part of the human race since early times and continues to play a dominant role …show more content…
In some cultures music represents an individual as a unique person. The same song is associated with an individual throughout his life and is sung at various times in his life such as celebrations of birthdays, weddings, and even around his death bed. The importance of music to mankind is paramount. In all of the previously mentioned studies, the findings show conflicting results concerning the effects of various background music on a student’s academic performance, concentration and arousal levels. Much research has been conducted concerning background music and its effect on students, but much more research should be done as the previous research is inconclusive. Of interest would be knowing about other types of music that has not been researched yet and its effect on students and their academic performance, concentration, and arousal