A friend told us that my husband is a music lover. Since he was at Yale University, he has taught himself various musical instruments. After having children, I took three children to play music. Everyone in the family can play more than a dozen musical instruments, and from time to time they form bands to perform in communities and schools. In the chat with this "fan dad", I found his unique understanding of music enlightenment, so I will talk to you today: the role of "music enlightenment" in the eyes of Xueba.
Improving children's logical ability with music
Nowadays, many parents will send their children to learn a musical instrument in pre-school as music enlightenment. However, if you ask about the role of music enlightenment, it is generally believed that children can be more artistic and their hands and brains can be more coordinated. But this Yale high flyers dad gave an interesting answer: children who can understand music are not bad at math and science.
He believes that exposure to concerts at an early age greatly promotes children's brain development. As they learn one or more musical instruments and begin to participate in ensembles, their rational and logical thinking skills will be better. This father told me that in ancient Greece and Rome, music itself belonged to mathematics, and syllables in the west were calculated entirely according to mathematics.
Three ways of music enlightenment
A pregnant girlfriend has been listening to Mozart at a fixed time every day since she was 6 months pregnant. I asked her what she was doing, and she mysteriously said to me, "Of course, listening to music for the baby makes him smart!" " "I can hardly laugh or cry, as if I mentioned music enlightenment. In addition to listening to music for the fetus, we also force primary school students to practice the piano. But in fact, there are many ways to enlighten music.
The first kind: listening to music.
Since babies came into this world, they began to feel the world with various senses. In this process, most of the senses are combined senses. For example, when a baby sees a flower, his eyes see the color, his nose smells the flowers, and his fingers touch the softness of the petals. But when listening to music, it is a single sense. Therefore, we need to teach children to "listen", not just using children's songs or classical music as the background sound, but teaching them to "listen to music", that is, listen to a piece of music and imagine the corresponding picture. For example, listening to "Waltz of the Voice of Spring" is associated with the picture of everything growing in spring.
The second kind: singing
Tim's first full singing was at the age of 1 half. He hummed slowly, then hummed a sentence or two, and finally he performed a complete song. As singer Tayu Lo said, in the process of singing, we feel richer emotions. If learning to "listen" is passively accepting music, then singing is actively participating in creation, which is the first creation of children's music enlightenment.
Therefore, parents are advised to sing in front of their children and guide them to sing. Give them the opportunity to perform, explain the story behind the children's songs, and let the children understand the emotions behind them more accurately.
The third kind: playing-musical instruments
Musical instruments are an extension of human voice. In the process of playing musical instruments, children's left and right brain coordination ability will also be exercised. The task of dealing with multiple senses is that children who play music will perform better. For example, when dictating words and solving math problems, it will be more advantageous. So it is also important to learn one or two musical instruments in music enlightenment.
Several musical instruments can also be played by babies.
When it comes to playing musical instruments, many parents may think that my baby is too young and should listen to music. Wait until you are four or five years old to learn a musical instrument. There is no need to be so rigid. Even a newborn baby can cultivate "musical cells" through musical instruments. Many musical instruments can be used as baby's musical enlightenment toys. Here are three common categories.
1, percussion: tambourine, triangle, etc.
Tim's earliest musical toy was tambourine. When he first knew how to hold a toy, he shook it with a tambourine. One day I was writing music with children's songs as the background. Suddenly I heard the bell of tambourine, which actually matched the rhythm of children's songs. It's Tim playing
Percussion may be the earliest musical instrument that babies contact, such as tambourine, triangle, tambourine and electronic drum, which is very suitable for babies to cultivate their sense of rhythm. You can not only teach your baby to play rhythm with children's songs, but also recite ancient poems and read nursery rhymes in time to cultivate your baby's sense of rhythm in language.
2. Keyboard category: electronic organ
Compared with percussion instruments, keyboard instruments are richer in timbre, and there are many "enlightenment" elements. When Tim was two years old, he would play a small keyboard with many music types built in, such as blues, folk songs, classical and so on, as well as the timbres of different instruments. It was also with that keyboard that he popped up the little star for the first time. Don't mention how happy he was.
3. Performance category: clarinet, Tao Di and harmonica.
Perhaps most parents think that playing musical instruments is not suitable for children, not to mention the difficulty of operation, but playing timbre is not so easy. But in fact, there are many musical instruments, and even the babies in preschool can play well. Clarinet and harmonica are more common, and Tao Di with ethnic characteristics is also very popular recently.
This kind of musical instrument is relatively small, suitable for babies to grasp with both hands, and it is easy to blow out round timbre.
Braised mother has something to say:
When studying abroad, I found that most students know a lot of musical instruments and can come to a class anytime and anywhere, which is full of personal charm. We are all envious and feel that playing musical instruments is absolutely overwhelming. But I didn't expect that playing musical instruments could make mathematics better. It seems that practicing the piano doesn't need to be graded, and maybe you will gain something inadvertently in your study.