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  Can Music Literacy Stimulate The Emotions Of Students?

 Music can be described best as an expressive form of art filled with emotions conveying your own feelings through melody and linear sequences of harmonic frequencies. 
Music literacy starts at the early stages of a child before reading and writing and long before holding a pencil. Music is not a spoken language but an expressive language so to read it you need to have a structured mindset, hence students learning music at the school level and those learning at the professional level both will be lifetime achievers throughout music literacy. (Mr.A, 2014) Studies have shown that music is a powerful stimulant for emotional intelligence and this explains why students who are avid music literate are keener to form and maintain healthy  long-lasting friendships with their peers, and are in more control of their emotional frustrations, which make them capable to resolve conflicts on school campuses in a more rational manner.  (Chandrasekaran, 2016) Emotion is an integral part of a human character that consists of feelings coming from one’s circumstances and are opposed to their thoughts; it can be defined as a disarrayed state of mind filled with complex feelings that carry physiological and behavioral change to the body. Emotions are what dictate our mental life hence asserting its relevance to the quality of our existence in this world. Scientists believe the emotion not only involve feelings but also entails bodily reactions and expressive movements.  (Cowen, Research Articles, 2019) Studies have proven that listening to music not only stimulates parts of the brain related to ecstatic stimuli such as food and pleasure but also allows blood to spread into parts of the brain assimilated with reward education and emotion. (Hampton, 2016)  An important factor in music literacy is its enormous effect on emotional experience. Music has the capacity to trigger powerful emotional reactions within listeners, so listening to easy-going enjoyable music will release dopamine which can change the mood and relieve stress. (Juslin, 2001)  Studies have shown that skills acquired from learning musical instruments can be translated into broad academic skills. According to UBC assistant professor Martin Guhn, students who read music grow listening skills, eye-hand mind coordination, and team skills; hence establish self-discipline in their behavior. All these skills received will push the students to develop cognitive capacities, executive functions, motivation to learn in school. (Columbia, 2019)  Music literacy is the channel through which students can undergo accelerated academic learning experiences which lead to a highly developed emotional intelligence. (Mcclung, 2000)