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Research shows that preschoolers who are involved with musical learning registered improvements in abstract reasoning, reading, and math1. Research also shows that rhythm, melody, and harmony stimulate several areas of the brain, and music could be used to repair everything from damaged speech to damaged emotion2.
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To Educate, Entertain, and Encourage Expression are the goals of our musical development products. In Volume 1, Do, Re, Mi in the Key of C,Bravi! Beginnings introduces solfège, which develops ear training and pitch recognition, and teaches relationships between notes. Using the major scale called the key of C, this video uses the solfège syllables and their assigned color to correlate notes on the musical staff to their corresponding piano keys. Note names will not yet be introduced, but the familiarity of these concepts will provide a foundation for future music training and note reading.
This video is also a practical tool, to teach children finger coordination to play simple melodies on the piano. Additionally, it will engage them with a greater depth of listening, and inspire them to sing and make their own music.
This first six years of life is a critical learning period. In addition to providing your child the satisfaction of musical expression, research shows that learning music during this important stage improves other areas of development. |
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What is solfège?
In music, solfège is a way of assigning syllables to degrees or steps of the diatonic scale. The origin of the words comes from the Italian word solfeggio, which is a combination of sol-fa. Teaching with this approach emphasizes the importance of learning how to sing on pitch, and relationships between notes.
Perfect Pitch
Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, is the ability to identify the note name from a sounded pitch. Research on this subject relates perfect pitch to speech and speech acquisition. It is apparent that perfect pitch is more common among the Asian tonal languages, and the research concludes that almost anyone can learn perfect pitch provided they are encouraged to do it while young.
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1 University of California at Irvine
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Society for Neuroscience |
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A way of assigning syllables to degrees or steps of the diatonic scale.
A seven-note musical scale comprising five whole-tone and two half-tone steps.
The ability to identify a note by name, or to be able to produce a note that is the correct pitch without reference. (also called absolute pitch)
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