So, musical education is a purposeful shaping of the child’s personality by the impact of music - formation of his interests, needs, aesthetic attitude to an individual.
Musical development is the result of formation of a child during the active musical activities.
And musicality is a number of abilities that help the child manifest himself in different musical activities: listening to music, singing, movements, musical creativity.
The more often your baby communicates with music, the more musical he gets; the more musical he gets, the happier and more welcome are his meetings with it.
Now let’s consider the influence of music on your baby’s development
In the early XX century, an outstanding Russian neuropsychiatrist Bechterev V. began to study the influence of music on the state of children. Even then benefits of classical music and lullabies were clear. It was also noted that music not only develops children, but heals them physiologically as well.
It was decided to check an influence of other sounds on babies. The researchers let babies listen to a slow rhythm of music in a calm pace. Externally babies were calm: they were soothed and fell asleep. But cytochemical analysis noted that enzymes in cells were being suppressed. This is also a proof that rock music with a strong pulsating rhythm is harmful to young children.
Excitable and restless children should listen to a slow calm music like second parts of the classical sonatas and instrumental concerts. A melody with words affects children more than a melody without words. A live singing is stronger than a recorded instrumental performance. And it does not matter what language a song is sung, newborns willingly listen to any one.
It is useful for babies with the syndrome of depression that suck badly and sometimes even breathe irregularly to listen to songs with allegro and allegro moderato tempo music. These are in a more accelerated pace and contribute to the activation of the nervous system.
There are children that music therapy is contraindicated for:
- children with a predisposition to seizures;
- children with serious health condition accompanied by intoxication;
- children with otitis;
- children, whose intracranial pressure abruptly increases.
Babies and young children should not listen to music with the help of headphones in any case. Our ears are adapted to scattered sounds and directional sounds can cause acoustic trauma in an immature brain.
Music therapy has a good influence on healthy and normally developing children as well. After all, sometimes they need to be calmed down or, conversely, to be cheered up. So this can be done with a relaxing or an activating music.
Modern research has shown that babies remember the music they were listening to before birth. And surprisingly, they recognize the music even a year later!
If a baby does not like the music he hears, he will respond even in the womb, especially within the last month of pregnancy. Do not be surprised if your baby calms down by classical music if you were listening to it during pregnancy. Your baby remembers it and prefers this music any other one.
But even if your baby will not be a professional musician, you should begin to introduce him to music as early as possible, preferably in the womb.
When to start musical education of the child? It’s ideally to be done during pregnancy. But in any case it’s better late than never.
What kind of music let the baby listen to? As I’ve already written above, it should be a calm, harmonious music. It can be also a classical music, special music for children, the sounds of wildlife (birds singing, the sound of an ocean, a steam, foliage), or a suitable pop music.
After your baby’s birth you can let him listen to the same tunes. And the baby will recognize them. You can even do an experiment: play familiar and unfamiliar melodies for him. His reaction to the tunes will be significantly different. Gradually add new tunes into the baby’s "diet". By 6-7 months of age your baby will not only listen to them but also move to the rhythm!
Sounds of enchanting music contribute to the development of baby’s senses, sense of rhythm, cognitive skills (memory, attention, expression, creative mind), help him to learn how to make and imitate rhythmic movements, contributes to the acquisition of new motor skills, improve excising motor skills and coordination of movements.
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