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The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health and Creativity with Music
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Product Description
Studies have proven that music has a powerful effect on the intellectual and creative development of children. Simply listening to sounds, tones and rhythms can stimulate brain development, improve language skills, enhance awareness, reduce stress and induce relaxation in children. Each chapter of this book is devoted to a particular age, from prenatal to school age, and parents and teachers alike can access musical guides, practical suggestions and games to play to stimulate children both intellectually and creatively.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #436839 in Books
- Published on: 2003-04-14
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Don Campbell is the world's foremost educator on the connection between music and healing. He trained as a classical musician with Nadia Boulanger in France. In 1988 he founded the Institute of Music, Health, and Education, and he frequently lectures at universities, at music organisations, at Omega and Esalen, to corporate managers, and to health care professionals. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Customer Reviews
Inspiring reading for caring parents
If you are thinking of having a baby, expecting one or already have a young child please read this book. You'll love it! A truly inspiring and scientific text about the benefits of music in developing happy, self-confident intelligent children and encouraging and stimulating them in their love of music, even in the womb!
Mozart Effect's Impact
Campbell is at his best when he focuses on children's neurological development and how it relates to music. He demonstrates how at different stages of a child's first years music and language will have varying impacts that directly correlate to a particular stage of neurological development. By reading his work a parent gains a better understanding of a child's capabilities at a given age.
Like any good researcher, however, Campbell often gets too involved in the tiniest details and loses sight of the big picture. His writing is verbose and it appears he lacked a strong editor. Still, worth a look.
