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The Mozart Effect – How Musical Instruction Influences A Child's Education ... Playing a musical instrument helps exercise the part of the brain that is responsible for helping a person with motor skill development...

Beginner Musical Instrument Buying ... New, used, rented, borrowed, or whatever if the musical instrument does not provide a good sound then it doesn't matter how much money is spent on the instrument, it will be worthless... As a general rule: "Always get the very best that you can afford." The beginner musical instrument buyer can obtain all kinds of information from many of the local musical stores, teachers, and friends about the experience of buying a musical instrument... There are so many ways to obtain information and advice on musical instrument purchasing that the beginner buyer should feel extremely confident if they have researched the market...

How To Match A Child Up With The Right Instrument ... What is the most appropriate age for the child to begin music lessons? What type of instrument should they start with?. ...

Flexible Fingers – The Key To Great Instrument Playing ... While playing instruments, the best way to shift the fingers to attain a desired result is to become skilled at playing with the slightest amount of stress in your hands and body. The utmost skill is reached with the nearly all the muscles relaxed...

Discussing The Proper Age To Start Learning An Instrument ... By learning to concentrate on the aspects in playing a musical instrument, your child will learn to focus their attention on details in their everyday life... The responsibility of taking care of a musical instrument is a powerful motivator and some instruments, like violins, can involve an unexpected amount of care, and keeping their instrument in proper condition is a great confidence builder....

It is unjust that Italy should claim musical pre-eminence, even forcing Italian on music as its international language, when Italy’s genius is so visual. No nation can build towns as beautiful nor claim a better right to regard nature as a shapeless substance to be redeemed by urbifaction. The Italians are not Wordsworthian. Man fulfils himself in the town. There is too much wild nature in music, and it has to be tamed into simple four-square patterns, as in Verdi and Bellini. The tenor does not proclaim Byronically to the woods and hills: he is a kind of sexy politician for the town piazza. The Italians would listen to Aaron, but not to Moses.
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)

I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear
Such gallant chiding; for besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)