What Age Should Children Start Learning Music ? (Part 1) 小朋友應該從什麼時侯開始學習音樂呢？( Part 1)
We have heard stories of some famous musical geniuses, such as Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight. Even if your child did not work with the New York Philharmonic or Chicago Symphony at age eleven (the violinist Midori and Herbie Hancock respectively), there is no doubt that you need to show your child's talent to the world. Whether the church's pre-school choir or primary school band concert, if parents want to let them succeed, they have to let their children contact music from birth, and in some way, they are right.
Many parents are often affected by other parents, hear their appeals and postpone the children's music course until their children grow up. For example, "My parents are compelling me to play an instrument when I was young ... I hate it and still hate it now." In order to avoid this negative attitude, parents will choose to delay the music class until the child is older and can choose their interested instrument. To a certain extent, they are also right. But that may seems to be somewhat contradictory. In fact, the question just is how do you define the music course. In order to better understand this, it is important to understand why parents want their children to have music lessons.
There was a research found that from birth to nine years old is the best time for children to develop their music talent. During this period, kid is developing and understanding music and its related knowledge, structure and mechanism of the main stages, so children in this age contact music is essential.
The most important question is when to start learning music? But what is the purpose the young kids’ music course? For example, although those very young children can not use the controller to control them, you want them to begin to accumulate experience and learn to develop a close relationship with the music. If this is your goal, then the child's "course" can, or should be in the first year after they were born.
And these "courses" are not necessarily the real course. In fact, at first, there may be some informal courses. Parents can bring their children into the music environment as a guide, you can through some simple activities to help your children pay attention to music, such as playing music games, let the children singing with the music, holding the baby swing or dance, or singing or playing the instrument for the children.
我們都聽過一些著名音樂天才的故事，例如︰莫扎特在八歲時就寫了他的第一首交響曲。即使你的孩子在十一歲時沒有與紐約愛樂管絃樂團(New York Philharmonic)或Chicago Symphony 合作（分別是小提琴手Midori和Herbie Hancock），但無疑的是你需要將孩子的才華展露於世人的眼中。 無論是教會的學前合唱團還是小學的樂隊演唱會，父母們如果想讓他們成功，必須讓孩子們從出生開始接觸音樂，某程度上他們是正確的。
很多父母經常受到其他父母的影響，聽到他們的申訴而推遲小朋友的音樂課程，直到他們的孩子長大。例如「我的父母迫使我在小時侯玩音樂。…我討厭它，現在仍然討厭它。」為了避免這種消極的態度，父母會選擇延遲音樂課，直到孩子年紀大了，可以選擇自己有興趣的樂器。某程度上他們也是對的。但是這似乎是有些矛盾的。其實問題只是你如何定義音樂課程。為了更好地理解這一點，重要的是要了解父母希望孩子們參加音樂課程最根本的原因。
曾經有一個研究機構發現，從出生到九歲是小朋友發展音樂的最佳時間。這段期間，是孩子發展和理解音樂及其相關知識、結構和機制的主要階段，因此孩子在這個年齡接觸音樂是至關重要的。
那麼重要的問題就是什麼時候開始學習呢？但幼兒時期的音樂課程的目的又到底是什麼呢？例如，雖然那些非常年幼的孩子是不能利用控制器來掌控他們，但是你想他們年紀輕輕就開始積累經驗和學習跟音樂發展成緊密的關係。如果這是你的目標，那麼小朋友的「課程」可以，或者是應該在出生後的第一年之內就開始。
而這些「課程」不一定是要是真正的課程。事實上，起初的可能是一些非正式的課程。父母可以通過將孩子帶入音樂環境中作為教導，你可以通過一些簡單的活動來幫助孩子對音樂的注意力，例如音樂遊戲、讓孩子跟著音樂唱歌、抱著寶寶搖擺或跳舞，或者為孩子唱歌或演奏樂器。
