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Career As a Music Teacher
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Today more young people and students in the United States are looking to enter in music field or make mark in which they can merge artistic or music talent and idealism in satisfying and meaningful ways. Teaching music to these young talents can provide you a better scope and career satisfaction. In recent times, this profession has gained enormous popularity and the ratio of people enrolling in music education course has also increased dramatically. In fact, today it is one of the few dynamic occupations that offer vast opportunities.
The career path you take as music teacher can vary greatly and simply depends on the kind of teaching that interests you most. You may work as a full time or part time in a studio, or in an elementary or secondary school, college, university, or music conservatory.
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Music – Medicine For The Heart
Posted by: | CommentsThe power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. – Oliver Sacks “Awakenings”
Music as a healing force goes back several centuries. Apollo was worshipped by the Greeks as the god of both music and medicine. Healing and sound were considered a highly developed sacred science in the Egyptian and Greek education systems. Soon after World War I and World War II, community musicians of all types, both amateur and professional, serenaded veterans, suffering both physical and emotional trauma from the wars. The medical profession is now embracing the value of music in the healing or palliative care of a wide variety of patients: the chronically or terminally ill, the disabled, the neurologically impaired, and the mentally challenged. Music therapy programs are popping up in hospitals and treatment centers around the country.
Heart disease is the primary cause of death in the United States. Those who suffer from heart disease either die prematurely or suffer a marked decrease in quality of life. Increasing evidence is proving that music is soothing for the heart. Marconato and collegues reported in the Arq Bras Cardiol. in 2001, decreased stress levels and increased personal satisfaction, higher consumption of fiber-rich food, lower cholesterol intake, and a better perspective on life in people on receptive music therapy . White in the American Journal of Critical Care in 1999 showed that in patients with an acute heart attack, music therapy was associated with reductions in heart rate, respiratory rate, and myocardial oxygen demand. Guzzetta went further and reported in Heart Lung in 1989, that the incidence of cardiac complications was found to be lower in patients admitted to the coronary care unit with a presumptive diagnosis of heart attack, if they were subjected to music and relaxation therapy. Thorgaard and associates reported in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing in 2004 that specially selected music had a positive effect on the well being of patients and their opinion on the sound environment during invasive cardiac procedures. Other studies have demonstrated health benefits of music during and after cardiac surgery.
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Music Affects Life
Posted by: | CommentsHave you considered how music affects you in your daily lives? The choices we make reflect they way we think and feel. It shows our personality and the way we feel about life. Music makes us laugh and lightens our mind. They many ways music is presented, from the old songs to the new, can be utilized to give us the best compiled list that will help enjoy life a little more.
No longer do we have to buy a full CD just to get the one song we like. IPods and the internet are allowing for a more mixed collection of the music most important to us. The many downloads on the internet and sites strictly dedicated to giving us a huge selection of music. We can pick and choose the songs that mean the most to us.
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