"The influence of music on students in the learning process"

Since time immemorial, music has accompanied people's lives. It can cause joy and sadness, soothe and excite, it makes us look into the innermost corners of our souls and understand the world around us more deeply. It has been scientifically proven that music can strengthen the immune system, reduce illness and improve metabolism.

Since ancient times, science has accumulated a huge amount of information about how music affects a person. Pythagoras established music as an exact science. He believed that music is subject to a higher law. He taught mathematics to music, because he noticed that it had a beneficial effect on the intellect. According to Plato, music is the main means of educating a harmonious personality. The great Aristotle, Hippocrates, Avicenna emphasized the therapeutic value of music, believing that music removes difficult mental experiences.

Especially strong is the influence of music on the human brain. Many studies have shown that it can not only temporarily change the level of brain performance, but also have a long-term effect. Music affects memory and attention. When listening to a pleasant musical composition, a person receives a charge for the level of attentiveness, strengthens memory. Music affects the brain in such a way that chemical processes begin to occur in it, which contribute to a feeling of satisfaction. The influence of music on a person affects creativity. When working to musical compositions of medium volume, the processes responsible for creative thinking are activated in the brain.This background noise helps to stimulate abstract thinking, which allows you to get unexpected ideas.

The perception of music can be considered the leading type of musical activity, since it is available to a person even before his birth, and accompanies him throughout his life.

Consider the influence of music on schoolchildren and for what purpose it is used.

First of all, it is used to correct the mental state of school-age children. It can be a struggle with children's fears, experiences, emotional deviations. Music serves as a stimulant of good mood. Usually, for children of primary school age, it is recommended to study music for the development of memory, which is so necessary at the first stages of education, art helps them in their creativity. Music therapy helps to cope with age-related transitional periods in the development of the child. The formation of aesthetic taste is also within the competence of musical art.

Musical accompaniment in English lessons has every chance of being used to form phonetic and lexical skills, to develop grammatical systems. It can help students to join a foreign language culture, develop the creative abilities of children and create a favorable atmosphere in the classroom. With the help of musical material, we are given the opportunity to easily create a psychologically comfortable environment in English lessons.

Music contributes to the aesthetic education of students, a more absolute identification of the creative possibilities of anyone. Using musical accompaniment in the classroom, a suitable mental climate is created, mental stress is reduced, and enthusiasm for learning a foreign language is maintained. In view of the foregoing, school education must necessarily take into account and use all the factors influencing music on the education and upbringing of schoolchildren.