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Resources by Paula Downes, a lot of music by Andrew Downes

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Continuing Education

This music education website is ideal for:

*  Music teachers looking for fresh teaching ideas to help them to deliver fun and varied lessons full of excellent content.  There are fantastic resources available on this site for primary music, elementary music, KS3, k-12, GCSE and A Level.  

Choose from a growing selection of videos, interactive whiteboard resources, worksheets and games.

*  Instrumental and vocal teachers looking for new ideas and resources

*  Adults and children who wish to learn a musical instrument, as well as basic and advanced music theory

*  GCSE and A Level music students who can use this site to revise for their exams, or to help them throughout their course.

*  University music students who can brush up on Harmony and Counterpoint, tonal and atonal composition

*  Those looking for online continuing music education courses

* Parents wishing to sing and play nursery rhymes with their young children

The importance of Music Education

*  Music helps children to succeed at school and far into adulthood:  research has proved that children who learn musical instruments do better at school.  The complex ideas a child processes whilst learning a musical instrument help the brain to develop more than if they didn’t learn the instrument. 

* The younger we learn the better: a new study at the University of Helsinki has shown that 'newborn babies can remember melodies played to them while they were in the womb'. (Alok Jha, The Guardian)   At Beijing Normal University, brain scans have been taken of young adults, revealing that 'those who had formal music training before the age of seven had thicker brain regions that deal with hearing and self-awareness'.  (Ian Semple, The Guardian)

*  A music course at university develops a vast number of transferrable skills, which will help the music student in the job market.  For example:  essay writing skills, ICT skills, problem solving, mathematical thought (harmony and acoustics)

*  Music-making builds a happy society: if you learn a musical instrument or how to sing, you can join an ensemble or choir, and therefore make friends.  You will avoid loneliness throughout your life and enrich your soul with beautiful music.

Music Education
Resources by Paula Downes, a lot of music by Andrew Downes

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