Why We Remember Abc's As Young Children

The author tells us that memorizing a series is best done by either rhyme, meter, and song. Comparatively, that is why we remember the “ABC’s” as young children. The author tells us a story about a student who writes an essay almost word for word what the teacher had said during her lectures. In a sense, the student had almost a photographic memory. She told the teacher, “I can memorize anything as long as there is music.” All humans who can hear, have accurate memories for tempo and rhythm. This is as long as the brain functions to work to the rhythm. Different sections of the brain, such as the motor cortex responds to taps and movement. The origin of rhythm is unknown. It seems that music emerged as a by product of other capacities such as speech. …show more content…
This is a result of ongoing rhythm’s within speech. Dating back to a hundred thousand years ago, people were gathered together by music and dancing, it was a way to socialize and gathering people together to celebrate. Today, this type of coming together held with using music has been extinct. To experience the music you have to attend a concert, opera, or a church. Rhythm causes listening as an active chunk of the music. The author also gives us an example of how rhythm affects marching. Not only do we recognize this in the military and war drum lines, but at funerals as well. Marches are compelling, it is serious for a human to resist being a fragment of an influential movement, thus they bring humans together. Marches bring a sense of unity into a community and this is a vision of cultural evolution by Merlin Donald. She thinks rhythm existed long before speaking was created. The author ends with telling us that there is a way to use rhythm without music