THE DAY – 30.04.2010 – Monica Mateos-Vega
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Young student asks parents to support children with musical skills
Please, that children approach music from a young age and support them if they see that they have aptitudes
, is the request that the young Oaxacan student Patricia Trujano Granados makes to all the parents she knows.
To his 25 years studying singing at the National Conservatory of Music (CNM) and he says that it was very difficult for him to enter. Comes from Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, where he studied piano. There are several musicians in his family, but empirical, not from school
so he had some support when he expressed his interest in devoting himself professionally to music..
“My dad told me I was going to die of hunger., but I told him, 'I don't mind, I will die happy'. When he accepted, He told me to go study anywhere but Mexico. I took an exam in Jalapa and at the conservatory, and here I stayed. My family had to accept.”
Nevertheless, Patricia did not enter the piano degree as she wanted, because I wasn't old enough: they put obstacles in my way, because for that instrument you have to enter maximum 15 years, I had 22, It was very complicated. They gave me the option to sing. In the end I realized that it was my thing
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Late initiation
The story of this young soprano is not very different from that of established musicians: a late initiation into music due, mainly, because in public basic education the teaching of music ispractically non-existent
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For example, The flutist Horacio Franco discovered his passion for music until he was in his first year of high school., when he heard a classmate playing the piano.
The harpist Mercedes Gómez Benet, CNM professor, emphasizes trying to find mechanisms so that from childhood everyone has access to quality musical education.
The benefits are many, details, Well, “we use all types of memory: auditory, visual, emotional, muscular, and we learn to make decisions in fractions of a second.
Scientists have studied this phenomenon in depth and have discovered that the brain of a child who has studied music will lead him to excel in any profession he chooses as an adult..
But, Regrettably, Both academic and medical studies on the benefits of music do not resonate with those who design basic education programs in Mexico.
I know a primary school in Barcelona, where even the mathematics, geography and history are learned through music. It is proven by international research, that mathematics and music go hand in hand
, comments cultural promoter Lucina Jiménez.
Details that music createsinternal structure and abstraction capacity. I could give many more arguments, but the truth is that in Mexico we have not yet managed to value the cognitive and training skills that the arts in general have., as well as music and dance in particular
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At the McGill Neurology Institute, from Montreal, in Canada, Emotional responses to music were investigated among people who neither studied nor regularly listened to music..
Brain mapping showed that some defined parts of the brain respond especially to harmonic music, but not to soundsgross
, linked to loud and inharmonic noises.
When, in the aforementioned study, it went from pleasant and harmonious music to noisy sound, The aforementioned areas stopped showing activity to do so in another specific area of the brain calledparahippocampal Gyrus
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Unfortunately, There are many music critics who consider that just as obesity is becoming a health problem among children due to the consumption of junk food., There is also indiscriminate consumption of alcohol among young people in the country.junk music
, that hurts.
