Music has been an important part of human life for a long time. Over time, music continues to grow in accordance with its function. Being entertainment, accompaniment of a ceremony, to the means of human expression.
Various musical functions are growing in accordance with the influence that can be caused by the arrangement of beautiful tones. Here we summarize the influence of music in our daily lives:
1 Learning music from an early age increases executive functions
According to the Center of Developing Child Harvard University, executive functions are functions that develop early on in humans to access information, remember instructions, give attention, and do multitasking. These functions are essential for the development of the child, and affect the brain's ability. Learning music from an early age (age 6 years for example) will greatly help the development of the prefrontal cortex, the part that became the center of excecutive functions development. This will greatly support the academic ability and achievement of children in the future.
2 The ability to recognize rhythm with regard to language skills
The ability to recognize rhythm is one of the abilities that children actually learn when they start learning to speak. Before you can talk, your child will recognize the pattern of rhythm and understand its meaning. The ability to recognize rhythm can be trained by listening to music.
Research has been done by testing the rhythmic ability of children to detect the ability of language, and the results of the rhythmic ability of children are good. Therefore, testing the rhythmic abilities of children can also be done to detect possible difficulties of children in the language.
3 Practicing music will help cognitive abilities
Around the world, it has been proven that practicing music will also affect the child's cognitive abilities, such as absorption and memory. Good cognitive abilities and excecutive functions will give the child a complete brain function, which will have a good effect on his performance.
4 Listening to music affects emotions
We know that the composition of the tones forms different kinds of music. Any type of music is believed to affect our emotions while listening to it. A touch of calm music will soothe us while panicking or angry. The touch of music with a high beat will increase the spirit when we are tired. The touch of romantic music will make our hearts flower. Therefore, listening to music is one way that we can try to make our emotions positive.
5 Listening to music while exercising improves performance
In accordance with the above points, listening to music with a spirit rhythm will make us feel fresh even though we are tired. Although there is still much debate among sports, but shown in some studies that music can help improve performance. The most popular music used in running sport. People who listen to the spirit music will reach a certain distance faster than those who do not.