Research indicates the brain of a musician, even a young one, works differently than that of a nonmusician. "There's some good neuroscience research that children involved in music have larger growth of neural activity than people not in music training. When you're a...

The cognitive structures developed through music instruction "exposed and illuminated more general organizing structures relevant for multiple disciplines." ~ Portowitz,P., Lichtenstein, O., Egorova, L., & Brand, E. (2009). Underlying mechanisms linking music...

An analysis of data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 demonstrated a significant correlation between participation in school music groups and achievement in math and English. ~ Broh, B. A. (2002). Linking extracurricular programming to academic...