Using the violin lesson as a point of departure, we'll visit historic sites, dance groups, musicologists, and experts in folklore and history. A short segment on the history of each country or region and its people will also be interwoven into the story line.
When I first started teaching in 1998, I believed fervently that music education was as vital to each student's development as math, reading, science, English and history were, and I stand by that even more today. The constant drumbeat of "high-stakes testing..
Then we take students out of the classroom and we test them. And we test them again. And we test them yet again. We focus on aligning our lessons to the standards and to the test.
A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language development, sound, reading skill and speech perception.
The study of 6-7-year-old children began in 2012, when neuroscientists started monitoring a group of 37 children from an underprivileged neighbourhood of Los Angeles. Thirteen of them received music instruction through the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles Program where they practiced up to seven hours each week.
-I don’t have time to research instruments or find out what’s best. I need this taken care of for me but I want to trust that my child is getting a good quality instrument and the things we need to give the best start to this endeavor...
Rent-to-Own with Golden Music has these time saving features:
1. The best quality instrument - we take time to find the best instruments to offer. For band instruments, we only carry Yamaha and Buffet. For strings, we hand select our workshops and it always ends up being family teams that are trained in the art of building violins, violas, cellos and basses.
-A quality instrument costs more but it saves money in the long run and it will make you practice more because the sound and feel of holding it is more pleasurable.
If you’re buying an instrument for a child, you can pick a cheap one but if you want a better sound and more of a chance for the child to want to practice everyday, you want something better.
Sound "quality" or "timbre" describes those characteristics of sound which allow the ear to distinguish sounds which have the same pitch and loudness. While a cheap instruments is making the same "note" as the quality instruments, the timbre can be screechy, harsh, not pleasing.
Invest Your Coffee Money Into Music for Your Kid...
...The intangible gain of your child learning to play an instrument comparable to the cost of buying one cup of coffee a week is a no brainer in favor of MUSIC! Think about how much you spend on a cup of coffee out once a week, $6? That is enough to give your family a lifetime of music and sound.
Golden Music offers a rent-to-own program where you are able to rent-to-own (or just rent) a high-quality instrument for about just $30 a month for most instruments. You will eventually own the instrument but are never required to keep it.
Music Education and Brain Development
Over the past two decades, music training has been associated with better than average language and mathematical skills and higher IQ, while differences between musicians and nonmusicians have been found in brain areas related to hearing and movement, among others. What is the mechanism behind such differences? One important goal of our program is to understand the effects of music training on brain development, investigated in terms of psychological (emotional, cognitive, social) and actual neural functions.
It's back-to-school time and you might be wondering…
- Where do I go for my child’s first instrument?
- I’m looking for a store that has a commitment to my community, what they do and a well thought out rent-to-own program.
COMMUNITY/SCHOOL TIES
Because we’ve been in business for 24 years, we have built our Rent-to-Own program with the input from our community, families, students, schools and teachers, to make it as easy and successful as possible. We help parents just like you everyday to find the best instrument for their kids…after all, your success is our success! We want nothing more than to continue the love of music in our community, and nourish that love for years to come.
