文档介绍：AN ANALYSIS OF READING AND CONTENT AREA
SKILLS IMPROVEMENT THROUGH MUSIC
INSTRUCTION.
THOMAS DIAMANTES, KAREN M. YOUNG & KIMBERLY MCBEE
Wright State University
This paper provides an analysis of reading and content area sub-
ject improvement through music instruction and examines the
issue of teaching music in today's schools. The music curricu-
lum is sometimes the victim of economic hard-times. The article
argues numerous benefits and advantages derived from music
instruction. The study discusses the use of music to increase cog-
nitive development. It also examines the benefits of music in
curriculum areas such as reading but also examines improve-
ments in the content areas of math and social studies. It
highlights the benefits to reach the whole student: social and aca-
demic.
The founder of our American School sense. Music has been said to "Soothe the
system, Horace Mann, believed that music savage Beast." It is used in celebrations
was necessary for the development of aes- and in hardship and is certainly an expres-
thetic appreciation, citizenship, and sion of emotion. Throughout history,
thinking. (Hedden, 1982). music was used to bolster the morale of
In today's schools, music as a sub- troops bat and to ridicule or intim-
ject of study is just as important as it was idate the enemy. Some doctors believe
in Mann's day, but far t