Music Advocacy Facts
Music helps children gain musical intelligence, vocabulary, an understanding of symbols and sequence, and an increase in memory and auditory function.
From: "Self-Esteem: A Byproduct of Quality Classroom Music," by Laverne Warner. Childhood Education, Volume 76, Issue 1, page 19; Copyright 1999.
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