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Musical Intelligence

Math Music to Your Ears

More than a quarter of a century after learning the states to the tune of “Do your ears hang low”, I still remember the states alphabetically in this way. And even though I’ve never had ANY use for the greek

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The International Language

Play a song in a language that your child doesn’t know in a style that appeals to him/her. What does it sound like the singer might be talking about? What is it about the music that makes him/her think so? The

kidzmetjen June 19, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Musical Intelligence Read more

How to Choose the Best Instrument for Your Child

musical intelligence aka music smarts

If you have a little musician in the house, they may be chomping at the bit to graduate up from your pots and pans and belting out vocal stylings to toddler tunes to their first musical instrument. Selecting the right

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Broadway Baby

Watch a broadway show or musical theater movie with your child. Have him/her make up a song for one of the other characters in a scene that wasn’t singing…or compose a song for “after Happily Ever After”–what happens to the

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Make It Your Mission! Part 3

Plan a date, time and place to have a gathering to talk to other “like minded people” in your community about your personal mission. Use your visual/spatial, interpersonal and/or verbal smarts to create one or more of the following to

kidzmetjen August 7, 2011 Interpersonal Intelligence, Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Personal Mission Statement, Visual/Spatial Intelligence Read more

Rhythm Nation

Talk about the different types of notes (whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth) as well as the time signature or meter. Talk about how, just like in math, each measure has to make up the number of beats in the time

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Calculation Composition

Musical notations are intrinsically tied to mathematics. Whether the fractional notes need to add up to a complete measure, each measure needs to be equal to the time signature, how the written notes are essentially “graphed” on the ledger or

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Hearing in Color

Using a pitch pipe, have your child picture different colors as you play each note on the scale (e.g. red for C, orange for D, yellow for E, green for F, aqua for G, blue for A, purple for B).

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The Music of Poetry

Pick up a copy of The Music Lover’s Poetry Anthology at your local library or bookstore. Choose a few of the poems that you think your child would enjoy, then download some of the musical pieces by the composers that were the

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Skillful Singing

For most adults, recalling the alphabet goes hand-in-hand with singing the tune, as do many of the concepts we learned in school. For musical kids, this effect is even more pronounced. Chat with your child about some of the language

kidzmetjen June 21, 2011 Linguistic (Verbal) Intelligence, Musical Intelligence Read more
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