Music soothes the savage beast

Recent investigation into the effects of music on the brain reveals that the brain loves music and that information travelling on musical notes is learned more quickly and better retained for speedy, accurate retrieval. But while the research also indicates that some children benefit more than others from music in the classroom, there has not been much study of how songs, chants, and lullabies influence learning. Songs, poems, chants, and rhymes, for example, made it possible for workmen in the Middle Ages to be organized to build great cathedrals. They have to also be able to assist all our students learn.