Despite research-based evidence about the importance of music, VIU could slash its nationally highly regarded music program.
A study published in 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology reported that high school students involved with instrumental or choral music achieved better grades across a variety of subjects in comparison with their non-musical peers.
Not only that but: “The students who learned to play a musical instrument in elementary and continued playing in high school not only score significantly higher, but were about one academic year ahead of their non-music peers with regard to their English, mathematics and science skills,” said Gouzouasis.
Tasha L. Golden, in an article published in the online journal Frontiers of Psychology, proposes that “music can also serve as a catalyst for social connection and support, breaking down barriers and bridging divides. Emerging evidence indicates that music has the potential to enhance prosocial behavior, promote social connectedness, and develop emotional competence.”
The bachelor of music degree and jazz diploma programs are on the table as part of plans to reduce academic department expenditures by 10 per cent and non-academic departments by five per cent. Then there are augmented, diminished scales and carnatic scales. This last scale, the carnatic, has a Middle Eastern flavour and is the one Dave Brubeck’s popular Take Five is based upon, along with alto sax player Paul Desmond’s legendary solo on the same tune.
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