(Harmony Music Therapy)
The child learns through visual and tactile exploration of the world around them. They not only recognize, but discriminate, compare, remember, and identify things and people. A fundamental thing that they learn is that objects, even if they disappear from their sight, can reappear because they do not cease to exist. It is not about the child learning music, but about acquiring a progressive ability to use this method of expression.
The important thing is not that the child learns rhythms or rhythms, but that they can move with rhythm. It is about the child learning to use their voice as an instrument, knowing the expressive possibilities of the body through dance. By doing so, they enjoy the activity while promoting their expression skills.
Music enriches life, and for this reason, it is necessary to surround the child with a musical environment rich and controlled in stimuli, since this sensory experience is what will provide balanced emotional, psychophysiological, and social development (Pruett-Hornbaker).
In Music Therapy, not only music is used, but also sound, in its most varied aspect of activities related to the production of sounds: discrimination, association, playing sound games, sound description of instruments, voices, nature, the human body, graphic representation through color, electronic instruments, body representation. Movement is also an essential element since music is movement. Being one of the dynamic arts, it is inevitable that movement is the protagonist. The need that the child feels to express themself, and to move constantly, can and should be used to open communication channels that give rise to a training and recovery process, thus reaching a balanced and integrated physical, emotional, and mental development.
The lack of motivation for the changes that the person needs may be the cause of their need for therapy. In music therapy, one finds motivation for the pure enjoyment of making and listening to music. This is such a pleasant and satisfying activity that motivates both the client and the therapist to transcend their own limits, explore new horizons, find new resources, and take new risks. and try new ways of being in the world. Music with its sublime beauty reaffirms the beauty of life (Reiser, R., & Dempsey, J. (2018)).
In conclusion, this work has given me many positive things and new knowledge that adds to what I already had. I have realized how beautiful the field of emotion and music is, I already knew how important music is, but with the research that I did I have learned many more things and I continue to think that it is becoming more and more important to have music present.
On the other hand, I have also realized how little relevance this type of subject has, since priority continues to be given to purely cognitive aspects, you just have to take a look at the curriculum to realize this.
I hope that teaching professionals realize this importance and that in this way they incorporate music in their classrooms, in addition to this way emotions are worked transversally, because what is music without emotion? Nothing, it is not music, it would be something similar, but we couldn't call it music, and the same goes for vice versa. There is nothing more beautiful than a song or piece of music that makes your emotions come to life, that is where you can see the emotion it transmits (Swanick, R., & Papatzikis, E. (2022)). Lastly, I would like to point out again the benefits that music has on a child at an early age. Differences can be observed in the development of a child who has had musical influence to one who has not, so I hope that this becomes something general and that all boys and girls have music in their lives since a day without music is a lost day. I think it is very important to work on music and emotions simultaneously since it avoids many long-term development problems.
Reference
Harmony Music Therapy. “How Music Therapists Teach Emotional Regulation in Preschool Groups.” Www.youtube.com, 19 July 2023, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw014YIWz4k. Accessed 14 Oct. 2023.
Pruett-Hornbaker, Lindsey. “Helping Kids Express Themselves through Music | Parenting Tips &….” PBS KIDS for Parents, 1 Dec. 2021, www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/helping-kids-express-themselves-through-music.
Reiser, R., & Dempsey, J. (2018). Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). Pearson.
Swanick, R., & Papatzikis, E. (2022). Achieving Behavioural Advancement through the Dynamic Maturation Model and the Assessment of Parent–Child Interactions in a Music Therapy Context. Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 12(9), 338. https://doi-org.oclc.fullsail.edu/10.3390/bs12090338
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