I recently heard about The Music Miracle, a new book by Liisa Henriksson-Macaulay all about the effect of music on children’s learning and how music training develops the brain.
The Music Miracle is a really fascinating read. It is fully backed up by scientific studies, but is presented in an accessible way for parents to read. I probably wouldn’t have through the scientific studies myself so it’s great to have this information in a more accessible format.
The book covers many aspects of how music training can impact positively on children, from boosting maths skills, to fitness, to speech and language skills, memory and brain power. It also dispels some of the commonly held myths, such as listening to Mozart to help raise your IQ. The studies referenced in this book show that it is not only classical music which has a beneficial effect, but any genre of music as listening to music is a manifestation of the happiness effect.
As the book explains, the benefits of music are not just linked to listening to music or playing music games, although these would be good for a child too, but they are linked even more so to actual music training. Author Liisa Henriksson-Macaulay is from Finland, where most young children have the opportunity to study at the Musiikkileikkikoulu. There they are taught core music skills in a playful way.
Liisa Henriksson-Macaulay has also created a music training package called Moosicology, which is inspired by her research and provides an easy and fun way for children to learn music skills such as rhythm, listening skills and musical reading. Find out more at the Moosicology website.
I definitely found The Music Miracle a fascinating read. Although I knew that music is good for children generally, there is so much information in the book that I wasn’t aware of or hadn’t thought about, like the link between music and phonological awareness.
Since it’s launch, The Music Miracle became the #1 parenting book on Amazon, and the #42 on the Amazon “all bestsellers”
You can find out more about The Music Miracle and Moosicology by watching this interview from BBC Breakfast with author Liisa Henriksson-Macaulay and Alex James, bass player of Blur and a key supporter of The Music Miracle.
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February 13, 2014 @ 2:31 pm
A bit of soft rock!
February 13, 2014 @ 2:33 pm
My little one loves listening to music with lots of beat, he’s just started bopping along to everything!
February 13, 2014 @ 2:34 pm
my children like pop
February 13, 2014 @ 2:35 pm
They like pop music best 🙂
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February 13, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
Pop and rock !!
February 13, 2014 @ 3:02 pm
Folky acoustic guitar. 🙂
February 13, 2014 @ 3:15 pm
Pop thankfully as I like that too!
February 13, 2014 @ 4:10 pm
anything thats on the local radio 🙂
February 13, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
Pop and rock, although Liam is coming up for 13, so he may start looking at music we ‘re not so keen on! Just to be a rebel!
February 13, 2014 @ 6:27 pm
anything!
February 13, 2014 @ 7:22 pm
Monkey prefers instumental music
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February 13, 2014 @ 8:12 pm
Nursery rhymes to sing along too
February 13, 2014 @ 8:27 pm
pop, my oldest is obsessed with one direction
February 13, 2014 @ 8:35 pm
Metallica and Rihanna bit of an odd mix lol
February 13, 2014 @ 8:58 pm
Pop and dance music
February 13, 2014 @ 8:58 pm
pop music 🙂
February 13, 2014 @ 9:22 pm
He loves listening to the disney theme tunes, he dancing around, he really loves music x
February 13, 2014 @ 10:10 pm
Country
February 13, 2014 @ 10:16 pm
Pop – take that, sting,
February 14, 2014 @ 12:38 am
Bon Jovi and Green Day at the moment – so rock tunes!
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February 14, 2014 @ 6:49 am
He likes songs he has learnt from attending Bookbug at library. Whilst he also enjoys theme tunes :- Favourite being Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
February 14, 2014 @ 2:43 pm
She loves going to rhyme time at the library, but I think she likes any kind of music because she starts dancing whenever she hears anything!
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February 14, 2014 @ 10:15 pm
Worryingly she likes rock music. The long-haired 80’s Whitesnake etc stuff. 🙂 She’s just turned 2.
February 15, 2014 @ 10:35 am
Bebop Jazz. I’m waiting for the day when she discovers the joys of my old punk rock records.
February 15, 2014 @ 11:18 am
My kids like anything with a beat!From classical to rock!!My 6 year old son has just started to play the guitar so I am so interested to read this book as his guitar teacher has told me how learning music can boost brain power
February 15, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
My girls live anything and will dance to anything
February 16, 2014 @ 12:16 pm
Anything that involves an animal!
February 16, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
anything and everything
February 17, 2014 @ 10:43 am
Pop music
February 17, 2014 @ 5:37 pm
pop music i think for my grand children
February 18, 2014 @ 7:47 pm
pop 🙂
February 18, 2014 @ 10:19 pm
My son loves anything he can dance to 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
Nursery rhymes and we also sing songs from the Musicals.
February 19, 2014 @ 7:49 pm
Lady Gaga style
February 20, 2014 @ 1:30 am
Pop Music.
February 21, 2014 @ 9:10 pm
Whatever is on the Just Dance videos on You Tube!
February 22, 2014 @ 3:11 am
Pop music
February 22, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
heavy metal \m/
February 24, 2014 @ 6:50 pm
Country Music
February 26, 2014 @ 11:20 am
My 9 month old daughter seems to love rock music!
February 27, 2014 @ 6:06 am
My son likes AC/DC
Iron Man is to blame
If we did not have this in common
It would be such a shame
February 27, 2014 @ 7:53 pm
He likes guitar music, especially Daddy’s!
March 2, 2014 @ 11:37 am
Anything at all xx
March 3, 2014 @ 10:06 pm
anything as long as we are dancing to it!
March 5, 2014 @ 8:23 pm
Pop or dancing
March 8, 2014 @ 2:54 pm
Rock music – and favourite is Crazy Nights by Kiss !!
March 8, 2014 @ 8:56 pm
Pop music
March 9, 2014 @ 9:17 am
Rock music
March 9, 2014 @ 9:28 pm
My girls are a little bit like me and like a bit of everything. My 2 year old is currently obsessed by lily allens newest song
March 11, 2014 @ 1:41 pm
my daughter currently loves Katy Perry’s Roar song
March 11, 2014 @ 7:44 pm
pop anything she can bop too!
March 12, 2014 @ 8:14 am
nursery rhymes
March 12, 2014 @ 10:51 am
Muse!
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March 12, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
A bit of everything! – very ecclectic
March 12, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
My daughter loves anything she can dance too 🙂
March 12, 2014 @ 12:58 pm
Any “poppy dancey” type of music
March 12, 2014 @ 2:04 pm
My toddler loves dance music ;D
March 12, 2014 @ 4:37 pm
My little one is 20 months so it depends on the time of day. Generally anything we hum along to or dance to, classic to folk to rock. The wonder of the internet means you can introduce them to almost anything… though she tends to stick her fingers in her ears when she hears techno!
March 12, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
POP!
March 12, 2014 @ 8:02 pm
pop music
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March 12, 2014 @ 8:56 pm
My oldest son is like me an eclectic but my youngest loves the current generation with a few of the 90s thrown in there
March 12, 2014 @ 9:14 pm
We’re still in the nursery rhyme stage at the minute but she’s just started to bop along with me now 🙂
March 13, 2014 @ 6:39 am
My girls like chart music best, although they will listen to other stuff 🙂
March 13, 2014 @ 8:34 am
Pop/Chart Music
March 13, 2014 @ 11:48 am
My kids like a really eclectic mix
March 13, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
Anything Excitable
March 13, 2014 @ 12:08 pm
my two girls enjoy pop. and – One Direction. One-Direction crazzzzzy. 🙁
March 13, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
My daughter loves One Direction :/ x
March 13, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
rock! just like their mummy 🙂
March 13, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
My daughter loves nursery rhymes and sings row row over and over!
March 13, 2014 @ 9:01 pm
my kids love anything with a tune, my 2 year old was trying to sing that dibby dibby song the other day 🙂
March 13, 2014 @ 10:00 pm
any music
March 13, 2014 @ 10:58 pm
My little boy loves classical music especially Peter and the Wolf.
June 16, 2014 @ 10:37 am
I think I’ll have to grab a copy of this book. Love finding out about this information. Thanks for linking it up to #musicexploration linky.
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