Ten Steps to a More Joyful Music Practice

We pursue perfection in a hurry at our own peril. It’s the rare person who masters any discipline in three easy steps, while watching an episode of The Real Housewives. Excellence or mastery takes time, attention and practice.

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Power of Music In Uncertain Times

Music is the universal language which unites us and makes us feel we belong to something greater in these times of social distancing we depend on the power of music even more to connect us to our feelings and to each other.

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Oboe is not Clarinet

Oboe is not clarinet, even though they both belong to the woodwind family of instruments and look identical. There are a few features that differentiate these two instruments from each other.

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Jenny Higgins
Creativity Development Through Composing Music

Research findings validate that composing music helps foster creativity and cognitive development in children.

Most children these days know their music choices and have solid ideas about the type of music they like and don’t like. Music is a type of creative art that is universal and prevalent in all cultures across the world. Many people wonder whether learning music, mainly composing, can make children more creative and help them academically. 

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Rose Bogossian
Music and Arts…Painting From Music

Many people think that there is no common point of reference between music and arts, especially painting. But the reality is otherwise. 

There is an opportunity to gain from accepting, exploring, and understanding how music affects arts, especially the painting process. To understand this process, try listening to different musical genres as you do a painting. The music will affect your subconscious mind, resulting in a different painting.

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Jenny Higgins