Recent studies show that babies respond to music emotionally the same way that adults do. When Newborns hear the sad funeral passages of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastasique, they squirm and even cry, but when the music changes to the lighthearted waltz sections, the babies quickly become alert and content. Infants as young as 6 months old can distinguish changes in such basic music components as pitch, tempo, and melodic contour. They even smile when they hear perfect fourth and perfect fifth intervals. Even though this shows that infants have the same music appreciation abilities as adults, the idea that listening to Mozart will improve a child's academics

remains unproved. What Science HAS proven is that keyboard instruction, making music instead of just listening to it, seems to almost exercise the brain.

Impressed by these studies, Georgia lawmakers launched a program in 1999 to give the parents of every newborn in the state a classical music recording. Two other states, South Dakota and Tennessee, soon followed suit. Before long, hospitals were giving away Mozart CDs with their disposable diapers. In Florida, politicians proposed that every child-care center receiving state or federal funding be required to play classical music to the children. There is even a daycare center in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to teaching children using a premise of classical music.

Thomas Jefferson began to play the violin at a very early age, and it was a hobby he stuck to all his life. One of his servants once said about him, He keeps three fiddles, played in the afternoons and sometimes after supper." This was in his early time. Wh

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