Listening to music

By Anne Hole

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Superheroes, Princesses, Dinosaurs, Monsters…!

Superheroes, Princesses, Dinosaurs, Monsters…! I'm sure you have some children in your setting who love to pretend to be one of the aforementioned.

So what has got me thinking about this?

To celebrate my son’s 14th birthday we visited Alton Towers. I was sitting in the X-Sector section, waiting for my two children to come off a ride, and I heard music that reminded me of superhero theme music and it got me think about the different type of music we let our children experience.

Have you thou…

Quality listening is so important.

There is a lot of music that is created specifically for children. I have heard some great compositions but I have also heard what I call ‘take away’ music: keyboard sound music. Like ‘take away’ food it’s okay but consumption should be limited! If we just play this music to our children we are letting them down! They need to listen to a wide genre of 'real' music. Ideally, some of this should be live but, as this can be tricky to organise, recorded music is the next best option. Therefore t…

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