A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn - Softcover

Perret, Peter; Fox, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932594086 ISBN 13: 9781932594089

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2006

Synopsis

"A Well-Tempered Mind" investigates the intriguing connection between music education and brain development in children. Peter Perret and Janet Fox use the details of an innovative music education program for elementary school students to explore this fascinating relationship. "A Well-Tempered Mind" describes how the students of Bolton Elementary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a local quintet worked together and then explains the ongoing research that focuses on how music engages the brain's cognitive capabilities, from memory and language to emotional processing. Music, "A Well-Tempered Mind" reveals, is a universal language that expands young minds in essential ways.

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Review

A Well-Tempered Mind "focuses on how music enhances development of the brain, and on the critical neurological pathways formed in young brains that involve a complex interplay of music, math, science, and language."--Winston-Salem Journal

"Enhancing the book's usefulness are a 'Tips for Parents' section, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary for musical and neurological terms."--"Symphony
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"A Well-Tempered Mind" "focuses on how music enhances development of the brain, and on the critical neurological pathways formed in young brains that involve a complex interplay of music, math, science, and language."--"Winston-Salem Journal"
"Enhancing the book''s usefulness are a ''Tips for Parents'' section, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary for musical and neurological terms."--Symphony

"The authors put flesh on the feeling shared by all music teachers that the experience of music enhances thought and learning in unexpected directions, well beyond the simple act of enjoying the sound. . . . It''s exciting and necessary reading for all who are battling to ensure the place of music in the school curriculum."--Times Educational Supplement

"A Well-Tempered Mind demonstrates that by working together, we can make a difference in our children's lives and replace cultural bankruptcy with a full pocket of good music. Lord knows we need it." -- Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

"It''s exciting and necessary reading for all who are battling to ensure the place of music in the school curriculum."
--Petr Janata, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for

"Practical and provocative. . . . There is much to learn in a close reading of this book, especially for all those wanting guidance in how effectively to bring music and musicians into the classroom. . . .In a world where children are too often being left behind, this book is cause for belief that, with the help of thoughtful, dedicated musicians, these same children may learn to leap forward." Jeanne Bamberger, "Chamber Music"--Jeanne Bamberger"Chamber Music" (01/01/2005)"

"The studies do highlight a positive relation between music and learning. . . . 'This book does not have formulas for creating young geniuses; nor is it a book of science, ' Perret and Fox explain. 'Rather, it tells a story, describes an educational process, and attempts to share some insights into the world of cognitive neuroscience.' In this context, they amply succeed."--;i>Scientific American Magazine"
--Richard Lipkin "Scientific American Magazine "

""A Well-Tempered Mind" demonstrates that by workingtogether, we can make a difference in our children's lives and replace cultural bankruptcy with a full pocket of good music. Lord knows we need it."

--Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center"

About the Author

Peter Perret was music director and conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony from 1978 to 2004 and teaches a graduate-level neuroscience and music course at Wake Forest University. Janet Fox is a freelance arts and education writer based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932594086
• ISBN 13: 9781932594089
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 270