The Neuroscience of Reading Music

<p><strong>HOW DOES READING MUSIC IMPROVE THE BRAIN?</strong></p><p></p><p>This groundbreaking book for music takes the reader into the human brain to discover the neural pathways for all music activities - including the essential neural pathways for composers conductors and all instrumental and vocal musicians who perform from printed music. </p><p></p><p><strong>The Neuroscience of Reading Music explores numerous topics including:</strong></p><p></p><ul><li>What are the differences in the brain between playing by ear and playing from notation?</li><li>Why is it neurologically improbable that learning notation early harms or lessens music intelligence as many educators currently believe?</li><li>What is the real role of music intelligence in reading music notation?</li><li>What is alphabetic logic and how can it speed up the note reading process?</li><li>Is simple-to-complex hierarchy neurologically necessary or just optional in learning notation?</li><li>How does whole body coordination affect learning abilities?</li><li>What is the similarity between reading notation and general classroom subjects?</li></ul><p></p><p>Moir shared her ideas and concerns with Howard Gardner the eminent Harvard professor and widely accepted authority on the intelligences who wrote the book <em>Frames of Mind the Theory of Multiple Intelligences</em> (1983). </p><p></p><p>You raise an interesting set of issues. Best wishes for the success of your book.            </p><p>-Howard Gardner</p>