Research Resources

Want to learn more about the benefits of music education?

Take a look at these articles!

Music and the Community

Assessing the positive influence of music activities in community development programs – Queensland University of Technology

“A smile on everybody’s face”: A multiple case study of community ukulele groups – University of Illinois

The power of music in the lives of older adults – University of London

Perceived benefits of active engagement with making music in community settings – University of London

Music, the Brain and Cognition

Associations between Music Education, Intelligence, and Spelling Ability in Elementary School– University of Ulm (2011)

Longitudinal Analysis of Music Education on Executive Functions in Primary School Children – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ArtEZ University of the Arts and the University of Amsterdam (2018)

Long-Term Positive Associations Between Music Lessons and IQ – University of Toronto

Music Education, Academic Achievement, and Executive Functions – University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, RTI International and Wolf Brown (2017)

Music Education Intervention Improves Vocal Emotion Recognition – University of Hull in the UK, the Levinsky College of Education and  Bar-Ilan University in Israel (2015)

Music Lessons Enhance IQ – University of Toronto Mississauga (2004)

Music Training Alters the Course of Adolescent Auditory Development – Northwestern University and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Music Training, Cognition, and Personality – University of Toronto Mississauga (2013)

Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity – Aix-Marseille-Universités and the Universidade do Porto (2009)

Orff-Based Music Training Enhances Children’s Manual Dexterity and Bimanual Coordination – University of Porto and Piaget Institute (2018)

Musician Plays Her Violin During Brain Surgery – NPR

The 18 Wonderful Ways Music Affects the Brain – NuMusician

Mental Health Implications of Music: Insight from Neuroscientific and Clinical Studies – Harvard Review of Psychiatry (2009)

Music and Social Skills

Emotional Intelligence and Strategies for Coping with Stress among Music Students in the Context of Visual Art and General Education Students – Kazimierz Wielki University (2020)

Extended Music Education Enhances the Quality of School Life – University of Jyväskylä

Group Music Training and Children’s Prosocial Skills – University of Toronto Mississauga

Long-Term Musical Group Interaction has a Positive Influence on Empathy in Children – University of Cambridge (2013)

Music Training and Emotion Comprehension in Childhood – University of Toronto (2012)

Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity – Aix-Marseille-Universités and the Universidade do Porto (2009)

The Effects of Musical Training on Verbal Memory – University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and John Hopkins University (2008)

The Trait Emotional Intelligence of Ballet Dancers and Musicians – University of London (2006)

(PDF) Music Training Improves Verbal but Not Visual Memory: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Explorations in Children (2003)

Longitudinal Analysis of Music Education on Executive Functions in Primary School Children (2018)

Music and Academics

Arts Education and Positive Youth Development: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Outcomes of Adolescents who Study the Arts – University of Maryland

Associations between Music Education, Intelligence, and Spelling Ability in Elementary School– University of Ulm (2011)

Associations Between School Music Participation and Academic Achievement – UBC (2019)

Examination of Relationships between Participation in School Music Programs of Differing Quality and Standardized Test Results – University of Kansas (2006)

Mozart Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Pleasure of Music – Laval University, Harvard University, Air Force Research Laboratory (2013)

Music and Academic Performance – Laval University, Harvard University, Air Force Research Laboratory (2013)

Music Education, Academic Achievement, and Executive Functions – University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, RTI International and Wolf Brown (2017)

Selected Demographic Variables, School Music Participation, and Achievement Test Scores of Urban Middle School Students – Ohio State University (2008)

Music Boosts Test Scores – University of Kansas

Teaching Writing through the Arts in Urban Secondary Schools: A Case Study – University of California and California State Polytechnic University (2008)

How to improve the school results: not extra maths but music, loads of it – UK Guardian newspaper, about Feversham Primary Academy

The effect of piano lessons on the vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills of primary grade students

Music and Mental Health

Extended Music Education Enhances the Quality of School Life – University of Jyväskylä

Emotional Intelligence and Strategies for Coping with Stress among Music Students in the Context of Visual Art and General Education Students – Kazimierz Wielki University (2020)

Arts Education and Positive Youth Development: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Outcomes of Adolescents who Study the Arts – University of Maryland

Mozart Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Pleasure of Music – Laval University, Harvard University, Air Force Research Laboratory (2013)

Effects of Music Preference and Selection on Stress Reduction (1992)

(PDF) Higher Education music students? perceptions of the benefits of participative music making (2007)

The Benefits of Adult Piano Study as Self-Reported by Selected Adult Piano Students – University of North Texas (2003)