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'Best Communities for Music Education' Launches January 20!

Since 1999, the NAMM Foundation has conducted the Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) Survey, a nationwide search for communities whose programs exemplify a commitment to music education. The 2012 survey launches on Friday January 20 and concludes Friday, March 9.

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Research Briefs: Did You Know?

The pace of scientific research into music making has never been greater. New data about music’s relationship to brainpower, wellness and other phenomena is changing the way we perceive mankind’s oldest art form, and it’s having a real-world effect on decisions about educational priorities.

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Music Benefits the Brain, Research Reveals

Friday, July 30, 2010 by: S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) Northwestern University scientists have pulled together a review of research into what music -- specifically, learning to play music -- does to humans. The result shows music training does far more than allow us to entertain ourselves and others by playing an instrument or singing. Instead, it actually changes our brains.

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NAMM Foundation Research Grants

The NAMM Foundation provides support for projects that explore the impact of active music making during various stages of life and on human experience and conditions. The Foundation then promotes this research through the media to educate people of all ages about the proven benefits of playing music. Grants are made in three research funding areas, as follows:

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Scientific Research Reveals Reasons to Play Music

Science says there are good medical reasons to play...

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The Benefits of Playing Music

Whether you're 5 or 95, you can benefit mentally, physically and socially from playing a musical instrument

The pace of scientific research into music making has never been greater. New data about music’s relationship to brainpower, wellness and other phenomena is changing the way we perceive mankind’s oldest art form, and it’s having a real-world effect on decisions about educational priorities.

Study Finds Group Recreational Music-Making Program Relieves Stress and Burnout in Nursing Students