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Synopsis
A Well-Tempered Mind investigates the intriguing connection between music education and brain development in children. Peter Perret and Janet Fox use the details of an innovative music education program for elementary school students to explore this fascinating relationship. A Well-Tempered Mind describes how the students of Bolton Elementary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a local quintet worked together and then explains the ongoing research that focuses on how music...
About the Author
Peter Perret been music director and conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony from 1978 to 2004 and teaches a graduate-level neuroscience and music course at Wake Forest University. Janet Fox is a freelance arts and education writer based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
From Scientific American
A chance event in 1992 prompted an unusual experiment. Perret, music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony in North Carolina, happened to hear a National Public Radio report about neuroscientists who were investigating the influence of music on learning. Young children who learned to play keyboards scored higher than their peers on tests of spatial-temporal reasoning, which is related to abstract and mathematical thinking. Perret, who had a...
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- PublisherDana Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1932594086
- ISBN 13 9781932594089
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages270
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