More music lessons – to improve memory, intelligence and behaviour
As the government launches the National Year of Music, a new report confirms that learning an instrument has many benefits for children
Learning a musical instrument at school improves children’s behaviour, memory and intelligence, a government-commissioned study has found, as ministers launch the first National Year of Music.
Professor Susan Hallam, of the Institute of Education, University of London, analysed scores of researchers’ studies on the benefits of music to children.
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