Show The Utah Statesman Kids prefer television music inadvertent and innocent children are learning to ap- In an Wty preciate mstead of Beethoven Preliminary research by Dr J of Craig Peery assistant professor family nd human development at shows that Utah State University four and a half by the time a child is musical tastes are years old his fairly well determined the musical In studying of preschoolers Peery preference to find out said he wanted hat kind of music kids like and came to like it He played several short selections of classical and light classical music and the theme songs from two popular telev ision shows The four year olds were asked to tU how thev liked each piece "Sing" the theme from Sesame Street was ranked as the most popular "Theme from MASH" was second with a Strauss waltz coming in third He noted that risk and folk music were specifically left out of the study because he wanted to control for preference for different how they FVery said "We concluded child that the must be learning an appreciation for it somewhere fiesides the radio and phonograph Peery says the anhwer n probably television “What other sources of music are there if you are four years oid if it is not the radio or the phonograph0" he asked The television teaches children to love music the quality of “ “Cornin' Hack for a Peery warned Hi Mac “And in this community where there is such a highly expressed interest in musical training and appreciation were doing nothing to counter the influence of television “ he added “That's depressing If parents value the skdls gained through musical training such as motor coordination working in a group experience in stage performance com entralion learning about the history and culture of other times and nations and knowledge of the instrument itself they owe their children that exposure to classical and that ex pcrience with music Peery said Children need to have experience with and appreciation for all kinds of music he said He noted that his wife is a concert pianist with a collection of hlvia Presley tapes Some people feel that children should not 1h allowed to attend concerts because they make too much noise the researcher said Page ' O Join The QvPi?v-mt5i- z w V in iner In ttie Disney College Wot shop vJ SINGERS INSTRUMENTALISTS You could find yourself performing on the most famous stage of dll uisaEJisncy uru Ijisnetjland to as Kesnrm Sururuns Ci0Mjr mftt Jurmts and pwwtao’W weiJsd Mutnuffi ajb it f) K ffu ta Snqvi Parents of the preschoolers were asked to fill out a questionnaire telling what kinds of music were played at home on the radio and exthe professor phonograph d pa Sasaa— sgaa Pthw 1 NTS beiNO Mu'vV FOft A yuur cf mnis pate" U INFORMATICS j rwtur Aura" l it was not more popular music heard the more he he noted 11 sAWir t V ww am mj HAN'S uMt S A vxJf'V ttJUtawi PMol AM' Ml AUDITIONS CONTACT D fir At r FU HcaSu RFGARDtNQ WN t iJCvArtnANO l k fvey vryw4 fttV ‘Ur 4 rout plained However 878 HMl i SI Mi A1 3 W1 tvara iku ft I HU 701 d4 4Jf can T S'A DO NOT CALI AUDITION LOCATION l mi juisufs tf w i was almost no relationship between the amount played in the home and how much the child liked popular music” "There r nwd u s N VMiwsng uiun A 10 kh um’m it r h x s nr Ballet West presents RALPH NADER THURSDAY DECEMBER 7 Consumer Advocate 12:30 Fine Arts Center Monday Jan 7:00 pm "The Energy Monopolies and Energy Consumers: Who's Winning 1" FAC sponsored by ASUSU § ¥ 8 diacuss will h her motivation Ur writing her ttook Patriarchs and Poilt II s She will also nfrk on tha reac turns ta used by the publication of the hook and comments that have been made concerning tha book Conversations an informal sack lunch seminar is sponsored by ilia Women s ( enter and is held every Wednesday at noun This Wed held in the neaday session will IJ C room 225 by Kathy Shafer Marilyn Warenski author of the book "Patriarchs and Politic a The Plight of the Mormon Woman" 1 ec will speak Wednesday 6 at the ( conversation aeries sponsored by the W omen ( enter The topic of her talk for Conversations will I "Soirielxidy Ought to Write a Hook with the h the rom subtitle concept of an idea to the birth of a book Among the topics Warenski will In the meantime there is some evidence that parents can reverse the trend by exposing their children to classii ai music in the home he concluded well found that the the child had would like it 1 Author to speak at ‘Conversations’ instruments Kach of the selections in the sample of music played to the youngsters has an orchestral background found that the Peery also children who liked one piece of genous classical music tended rank other classical pieces high Dcmb( 4 Monday O U |