A new study has found that learning music plays a critical yet often overlooked role in enhancing the well-being of children and adolescents, calling for a stronger focus on music education in schools ...

Anita Collins is a visiting fellow at the Music, Mind & Well-being institute at the University of Melbourne. Misty Adoniou receives funding from the ACT Education and Training Directorate to research ...

Whether your child is the next Beyonce or more likely to sing her solos in the shower, she is bound to benefit from some form of music education. Research shows that learning the do-re-mis can help ...

Learning music is good for everyone, especially children, whose brains are constantly developing. Along with activities like sport, maths, learning languages and ballet, music has been shown to ...

The research described here was supported by the National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center Program grant to the UW LIFE Center (P.K.K., PI: Grant No. SMA-0835854), the Ready Mind Project ...

Music education is emerging as a wellbeing strategy to boost young people’s confidence and strengthen relationships. New ECU research calls for schools to treat learning music as essential for mental ...