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Show December PAGE 8 INCOMPLETE WITHOUT MUSIC LIQUIDATION PRICES CONTINUE!! Music education can't be started too early, but starting a child on a musical instrument too early usually isn't very productive. Warren L. Burton, who is chairman of the elementary school music education program in the Music Department at Utah State University and works with the elementary school string program in Logan school district, believes that without music an individual is not complete. The USU music educator was asked to comment on the role of music in education and in life. He responded: 0 DO 00 MAN, WHENEVER and Europe has surrounded himself with beautiful things. He has built his house up high so as to be able to see the beauty around him. Esthetic awareness is important appreciation of all forms of beauty around us gives greater meaning and purpose to life. With this experience we become more sensitive to the moods and feelings of people. Dr. Burton is an accomplished and versatile musician. He teaches by performing, both seriously as a cellist, and with a light touch, entertaining his audience as he breaks down an orchestra for them to see the parts, or shows how to get music out of air escaping from a balloon. in history, adds, It helps express awareness of life and environment. It helps to achieve discipline and concentration. Musicians as a group have learned to concentrate. Most important, it develops a sensitivity, a refinement, a cultural conditioning for that which is lovely. Children who 4? ON T THE MUSIC HEARD in the home determines the desire of the child to learn music, says Warren Burton, chairman of the elementary school music education program in the Utah Stale University Music Department. learn to respond naturally to needs and that many times an inner sensitivity is not awakened because opportunities are missed or are not presented. "There is a lot of mundane music, both in the popular songs and in traditional program music. Music to be great must be uplifting so as to elevate the spirit and emotions and cause one to respond in a positive way. Any music which does less than this should be carefully avoided, he argues. Even good music can be used for unworthy purposes, he believes: especially in their earlier years, learn to exmusic, press themselves better, even verbally. Another reason to study music, either as a performer or a listener, is to develop a broad interest throughout the wide spectrum of music; musical taste is acquired, not inherited," Dr. Burton says. HE BELIEVES a young person needs direction to help him make decisions as to what experiences in music will best serve his creative Music stirs; it incites. have OF THE ADDED LINES & SERVICE BECAUSE been used to promote spirit at football games and in military organizations. Hitler used some of the greatest i music in his appeals to German Nazi patriotism. To- day some rock music has been used to express protest or to incite people into an BEST in unique toys, models, crafts, road race! unwholesome state of mental jThe or physical agitation. ! trains, cake decorations, vogue dolls, & advice ! 1 Bands and bagpipes PAUL'S HOBBY SHOP 12 WEST MAIN UTAH TREMONTON, CLIFF-TE- ASKED HOW EARLY a child should begin taking ) X - MED SIZES S - RUGGED SHELL WITH WEATHERPROOFING KING KOIL A lessons on a musical instrument, Dr. Burton expressed the view that most who start very young do so because parents get anxious. If the child is too young the teacher must teach so many other things along with the instrument that the results are not very significant unless, of course, the mother has a strong rapport with the child and can give a lot of attention and help to the learning process. That is why the Suzuki string teaching method, which involves very young children, is more successful in Japan than in America it's a societal difference, where the mother devotes herself so completely to the child, he believes. CHARM MISSION INTERMOUNTAIN DECOR T L.A. PERIOD SINGER GUILD C INDIA INK CHROMCRAFT EC SHEFFIELD To play an instrument, a child must develop motor D muscle coordination, and that comes only gradually, the USU teacher explains. SWIRLCRAFT DE SOTO A young child needs to be of the able to use all parts body to express feelings and emotions. He walks like an elephant or tiptoes like a mouse, for example. He imitates what he sees, then he learns to respond to fast and slow, loud and soft, or to textures of sound and sight and then he begins to relate to the things he hears and THUNDERBIRD HE POINTS OUT that speech and movement are very natural for a child and are the springboard for musical expression, and young children need many years of such activity to bring about a state of readiness for fuither musical experiences. SNOWMOBILE SUITS LADIES-MEN- KANOWSKY sees." "Blizzard Proof" SMALL A A N r ' . GIANT He teaches music appreciation" to general students, both in the classroom and in a special course he developed for radio. He has conducted a junior orchestra of students from several area schools teaching them and using them to teach others how to understand and enjoy a musical experience. IT WAS KODALY who said a child's music education should start nine months before the child is born. That means that parental attitude and the music heard in the home determine the desire of the child to learn music, or to study a musical instrument, Burton says. As to the value of the study of music in human life, he 1975 OTYHG3 But When To Start? wherever 4, LARGE What all this means - INSULATED WITH DACRON is that a youngster can begin to learn to express music tetter after he has developed more muscle coordination and means of expression, so he doesn't have to be learning those skills at the same time OZ. PRICES START AT MATTRESS V SLEEPERS STurwcw i he is learning the musical instrument, he added. So Dr. Burton suggests not SNOWMOBILE BOOTS 0 s-j0- SEE US FOR ALL YOUR GLOVES SNOWMOBILE - MITTONS - WEAR SUITS SUITS SOX PARK - FACE MASKS ETC. THE K.O.B. 30 SOOTH MARI LOGAN PHONE: i - FREE ACROSS IN - STREET PARKING 752-711- 2 LOT starting a child on a musical instrument at too early an age because it is akin to starting a child to read too he may learn to early dislike it. At the third or fourth grade a youngster may be physically and mentally ready to begin, then you can teach the instrument and not have to teach other motor activities at the same time. A child starting later can often catch up technically with those who have started earlier because coordination and concentration are used to better advantage. However, there may be a little more magic in the playing of one who starts earlier, a little more musical finesse, and expression of sound' This is just a function of more time," he says. SOFA 4 289! Mt ?89i MAINISMITHFIELD gnapQgKffiftfFDi GBXXBXEEIZ) ftiED0OlDCEQ9u |