Musical Intelligence

Musical Intelligence or "The Music Lover" represents the world musically with musical sounds, patterns, rhythms and harmony. Some say that music is a talent and not intelligence, however Gardner says than if it is not an intelligence fine call someone good with words and numbers a talent. He does not want people to prioritize logic and language therefore marginalizing the other intelligences. Musical intelligence allows people to create, communicate, and understand meanings made out of sound.

• Having pleasant singing voice
• Understands tone and pitch and can tell when something is off-note
• Frequently listens to music
• Life is richer because of music
• Plays a musical instrument
• Tapping out sounds and rhythms while doing other work
• Knows the tunes to many songs
• Catches yourself singing a jingle from TV
• Hears and notices sounds that are nature (birds singing outside window)

The musical intelligence individual may find a career in radio, composer, music teacher, conductor, musician, music critic or agent.

Mozart, Elvis Presley, Brittany Spears, Beethoven.

Students may enjoy programs that combine stories with songs, use music as a reward, create their own songs, multimedia that incorporates various sounds, graphics, and words, creating rap songs. When this intelligence is used, it is likely the most mood-altering form of intelligence. This intelligence likes rhythm patterns, tones, compositions, vibrations, humming, environmental sounds, instrument sounds, singing, tonal patterns, and musical performance.

• listen to different types of music to prepare for an activity.
• listen to relaxing music prior to taking a test.
• create a tune about a given area of study.
• analyze how different people speak - what inflections they use, how they vary the pitch of their voice, etc.
• listen to various sound from nature in an attempt to discern patterns and rhythms.
• listen to a famous piece of music, then have him/her describe it's "mood."
• compare/contrast students reviews to "official" reviews of a piece of music.
• rhyming activities

http://www.edu.yorku.ca/CIERmain, links students using MIDI to compose music in their classrooms with professional composers.

visit http://cnet.unb.ca/achn/kodaly/koteach/ the Virtual Music Classroom for music activities and resources for kids and teachers

http://www.music.utah.edu/virtual/, offers music in the classroom resources through the University of Utah.

or visit http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Music-Ed/home.html, for discussion lists, bulletin boards, links and instructional material in variety of subjects to keep elementary educators current

http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/FieldOps/Cgs/music_cl.htm, a Colerain Teachers' Resources - music-in-the-classroom internet resources for teachers