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"Music & Success in Life." Guitar Lessons, Piano Lessons, Voice Lessons, NYC, Manhattan, NY, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. . Article talked about the many advantage that music has over a person's personality and behaviors. Some of the examples were "Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits". Also other examples how music encouraged a community and brought groups together. It then went on the explain the health benefits of music therapy which will be great to use in my paper when I am explaining the benefits music therapy could have on other countries where actual medicine is not easily accessible.

Paquette, Kelli, and Sue Rieg. "Using Music to Support the Literacy Development of Young English Language Learners." Early Childhood Education Journal 36.3 (2008): 227-232. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Music is a way to let children experience learning in a different way. The article talked about how by learning and singing songs they are learning literacy and exploring ideas that are not brought up in the common classroom, such as creativity in the art.\n"Whether children listen to the ''music'' of the rain, popular chil- dren's songs, or make their own musical compositions, important skills, such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking are developed. In an early childhood classroom, a musically, literacy-rich environment will generate interest, encourage creativity, and set the stage for a positive learning environment.

GRANT, M. J., et al. "Music and Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 35.2 (2010): 183-198. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Discusses the role that music plays in conflict situations. Also has research that demonstrates  the potential music has to promote non violent resolutions of conflict. 

Balandina, Alexandra. "Music and conflict transformation in the post-Yugoslav era: empowering youth to develop harmonic inter-ethnic relationships in Kumanovo, Macedonia." International Journal of Community Music 3.2 (2010): 229-244. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Article talks about how the summer youth music festival provides opportunities to transform a republic in Yugoslavia. And the motivation that music has on young people. 

Articals teaches how music can be used as a "technology" towards health healing and recovery. Study was conducted on 22 people ages 34-65 with long term illnesses and diseases. 

Artical talks about the impact music has on the brains development. It also explains the connection between musical structure and cognitive activity. 

Waller, David. "Literacy and Music Literacy: Language A Pedagogical Asymmetry." OhioLINK. Web. 19 November 2010 Music education discourse is marked by frequent comparisons of music to language, and of music notation to written language. However, the role played by writing, as opposed to reading, is often overlooked in that discourse, as well as in classroom practices and workbooks. Consequently, far too many students can read music notation but not write it. Failing to achieve full literacy in their field, they develop a habit of deference toward printed music. Plato argues in the Phaedrus that we should not take that which is written too seriously. Letting students write music will help them to achieve the perspective of Plato-himself a writer.

Wiggins, Donna G. "Pre-K Music and the Emergent Reader: Promoting Literacy in a Music-Enhanced Environment." OhioLINK. Web 20 November 2010. This article is about the importance of the relationship between music and literacy. it also discuss how music and literacy connect in the early learning setting. Emergent literacy may be nurtured in an early childhood environment that integrates literacy experiences with meaningful music activities in which young children develop skills necessary for success in both areas simultaneously. Early childhood educators can develop the knowledge and skills needed to bring music into the classroom as an engaging and stimulating element of literacy education.

Hourigan, Ryan, and Amy Hourigan. "Teaching Music to Children with Autism : Understandings and Perspectives." EBSCOhost. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.\n\n- This study focuses on Autistic students that primarily learn from audio or music (auditory). It starts by briefly explaining what Autism is again. It then goes on to list similar disorders that are under the same "umbrella" as Autism. It lists many concerns that Autistic students have, so that you can relate to them easier. It also talks about how to teach Autistic children music. This would be a good example for a teaching method in a paper.\n\nTHIS SOURCE IS SCHOLARLY.

Woodall, Laura and Brenda Ziembroski. "Promoting Literacy Through Music." Songsforteaching.com. Songs for Teaching TM, 2009. Web. 3 November 2010. This article is primarily about finding confidence in writing and reading through music. It goes on to say that children are naturally wired to sounds and rhythms so at a young age it can be used to establish rhyming patterns in areas of reading and writing. Music can be a way to remember stories and learn more about the world. Repetition of songs enhances emergent literacy. The article also says music and print language are similar.

Gould, Elizabeth. "Music Education Desire(ing): Language, Literacy, and Lieder." Philosophy of Music Education Review, Volume 17, issue 1 (June 04, 2009), p. 41-55. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010. Issues of desire in music education are integral and anathema to the profession. Constituted of and by desire, we bodily engage music emotionally and cognitively; yet references to the body are limited to how it may be better managed in order to produce more satisfactory (desired) sounds, thus disciplining desire as we focus on the content of teaching (music) to the virtual exclusion of its subjects (students)-and our selves.

Barker Reinecke, Marguerite. "Teaching music literacy in the townships: building partnerships and a culture of accountability." OhioLINK. Web. 19 November 2010 The learning of music can transform the lives of young school children and youths in a Johannesburg township. This article describes the background to the pioneering work of the South African Music Education Trust (SAMET) in its attempts to kindle interest in musical literacy, to fund its projects, and to create a culture of trust and partnership between donors and recipients, some of whom are learning about fund management and accountability for the first time.

Manus, Sara. "Librarian in the Classroom: An Embedded Approach to Music Information Literacy for First-Year Undergraduates." OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010 This article is about developing a new model for information literacy. It discusses how you foster the development of foundational research skills in first-year undergraduate music students. This was the dilemma facing Vanderbilt University music librarians and faculty. Our solution to this problem was to implement a four-semester integrated music information- literacy program that emphasized library instruction for first-year stu- dents.

Article talks about a 12 week study with students rangeing from 16-17 yrs old. It goes on to talk about the effects that music had on them and the comments made from the psychologist and educational researchers. Talks about how music therapy works, informs the therapeutic benifits, and talks about therapy within a school setting.

Piro, Joseph M. "The effect of piano lessons on the vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills of primary grade students." Psychology of Music, Volume 37, issue 3 (July 2009), p. 325-347. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010. A number of studies have reported positive associations between music experience and increased abilities in non-musical (e.g., linguistic, mathematical, and spatial) domains in children. These transfer effects continue to be probed using a variety of experimental designs. The major aim of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the effects of a scaffolded music instruction program on the vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills of two cohorts of second-grade students. One group (n = 46) studied piano formally for a period of three consecutive years as part of a comprehensive instructional intervention program.

About the importance of music education.

Knapp, Angela. "Music and the literacy hour at Key Stage 2: an investigation into curricular pressure." British Journal of Music Education, Volume 17, issue 3 (November 2000), p. 265-276. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010. Primary school teachers have had to endure a great many changes in the profession over the last decade. Since the advent of the National Curriculum - the most significant change of all - there have been further alterations to the teaching programme. The first was a revision of the National Curriculum itself, followed by the election of a new Government, which rapidly introduced another major change: the prescriptive teaching of literacy and numeracy. To accommodate this, primary schools have had to juggle to maintain a broad and balanced curriculum of foundation subjects.