Mostly Mozart for Kids

Something to think on

“Music, the rhythm, tone and vibration of sound, serves to organize matter- to create structure in space and time. Its effects are clear and measurable, not only on physical objects, but on biological entities as well. Reaching the human brain via the ear, music interacts on an organic level with a variety of neural structures. In fact, scientific research now indicates tha this interaction has left its mark over the millennia on human physiology. The fact that a full two-thirds of the cilia in the inner ear- the thousands of tiny hairs that lie on a flat plane like piano keys—resonate only at the higher ‘musical’ frequencies (3000-20,000 hertz) suggest that at one time human beings communicated primarily with song or tone. One hypothesis is that human communication evolved from singing to primate-like grunts before finally arriving at what we recognize as modern speech.
Perhaps this is why infants, newborns and even fetuses universally display a remarkably high receptivity to music. Research has shown that a baby’s brain arrives fully capable of recognizing such building blocks of music as key, pitch and tempo. The system that the brain uses to process music are either identical to or fundamentally entwined with the systems used in perception, memory and language.”