When to Start? Earlier the better! From the birth or even before! Whether you are in the Western Europe or in an Eastern country, the basic principles remain the same for music. Of course you could start listening to Mozart or Ravi Shankar from the time you conceived, in the end what is important is that the child appreciates music. We all do appreciate pop music but it takes a bit of an effort to appreciate classical music.
Probably because,
classical pieces are long; big structures, and melodies aren't simple
most of the time don't have words
and they are not often out there for you to get used to it
difficult to remember the tunes- so can't hum or play by ear!
But pop music is almost the opposite to all of those above.
they are short and melodies are relatively simple.
have words
they are everywhere
most of the time can remember the words
can hum and most of them can be played by ear.
In other words, you don't have to introduce your child to pop music. But certainly have to do it for classical music.
Listen to these videos. You and your kids could sit together and enjoy this type of classical music any time. In fact that's how I introduced classical music to my kids- purely by accident! Just got a DVD with animations and it had classical music; and they loved it.
Then another day I got them this!
And they never stopped listening to Chopin. In fact, they wanted to name our dog that and I prohibited it!
(Well, there is a Beethoven.)
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