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Music and the Brain

 

Music enhances creativity and promotes social development, personality adjustments, and self worth. Also, listening to music before tests can improve students score.

Before taking a test there are many musicians that people are recommended to listen to. Some of the musicians are Mozart, Baroque, Bach, Debussy, Hayden, and Mendelssohn. Researchers say that Mozart specialty is improving higher-level thinking skills. The rest of the musicians help mainly with your concentration level. Having experience in art and music also helps when it's time to take a test.

Students who have had more than four years of art and music score an average of 34 points higher on the verbal section of the S.A.T. than students who don't have the experience. Students also score 18 points higher on the math portion. Art and musical education helps students do better in other school subjects. Art also helps kids develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Music not only helps improving test scores, it helps people deal with thinking levels.

If you are going to listen to music before a test to try to improve your score, you should listen to music without any lyrics. The reason is because it makes your brain work too hard to make sense of them. It is good to listen to familiar music because it is suppposed to give you a more comfortable feeling. You also want to be careful not to listen to a piece of music that could bring back an importnat memory that you might have. It has been proven that music can produce the most profound states of mental and physical relaxation. Another way to relax is bu listening to the piano.

The piano helps with a many thinking skills. The piano also helps with peoples' self-esteem levels. Building self-esteem is a common goal for those whose job it si  to bring music and children together. Hearing the piano gives you a better view of the world. Many children start playing the piano at a very young age. The younger a child starts playing a stringed instrument the more cortex the brain will have. Few concert-level performers begin playing later than the age of 10. It's much harder to learn an instrument as an adult.

   

 

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