Advantages of Music Study
1)  Music study enhances ability to do well in school.

2)  Music study enhances school readiness, fine motor control, use of
symbol systems, following direction, concentration, memory,
perseverance, visual and aural discrimination, organizational skills,
task completion, and goal setting.

3)  Music study encourages abstract thought and stimulates
right-brain/left-brain activities, creativity, intuition, and innovation -
skills that are not covered adequately by the school curriculum.

4)  Music study develops attention span and concentration level.

5)  Music study builds self-esteem and develops initiative.

Confirmed by research findings conducted by Dr. Frances Rauscher of
the University of Wisconsin and Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of
California