Exploring the best age to start music lessons, the American Music Institute highlights the cognitive and social benefits for ...

Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and they’ll get smarter. Mainstream news headlines have helped fuel the belief, ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2004, a paper appeared in the journal Psychological Science, titled “Music Lessons Enhance IQ.” The author, composer and University of Toronto ...

A child sits at a piano. (Image by Vlad Vasnetsov from Pixabay.) If there’s anything we all might be able to agree on about the past year of a global pandemic, it’s that it has been stressful. Many ...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), one of the world’s most well-respected music education institutions, promotes the life-long cognitive benefits that music lessons have ...

Music lessons help children learn language skills by honing their ability to differentiate between pitches, according to research. Numerous studies in the past have shown musical training can boost a ...

Timothy McKenry is a syllabus consultant and examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board. There are many reasons a child should learn a musical instrument. Not only does it give them the ...

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The Settlement Music School in Philadelphia has gotten its largest programming grant to date. The South Philadelphia-based school has received $250,000 to give low-income children music lessons. The ...

Looking to start music lessons? It might not be as easy as do-re-mi. Googling “music lessons in Sacramento” spits out endless results, and that’s just the problem: With so many choices, how do you ...