Musical Intelligence

Musical Intelligence

Musical intelligence involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical 
patterns. It involves a sensitivity to pitch, melody, and tone. Occupations that draw upon this ability 
include a composer and violinist.

Using Techology to Teach Multiple Intelligences: Musical

The software available to professional musicians these days can allow people to look at the wave(s) a 
sound makes, take away or add little bits of that wave to manipulate the sound in some minute way, 
and put different sounds together in an exact science. Of course, this software is very expensive, but 
less expensive versions of this kind of software are available, and it can allow students to really see 
what makes music, not just on an instrumentation level, but on a physical level as well.

Have students layer and manipulate sounds created by a synthesizer. Programs can combine timbres, 
and even individual frequencies and wavelengths. Each group can create a melody using such 
software. Try having different groups put their melodies together. Ask them which ones sound good 
together, and why? Let them figure out how to make harmonies and melody lines work. (http://
www.mcmel.org/erica.mi/technology.html)

Internet Links

http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/multiple.htm
http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/multiple.htm

http://www.mcmel.org/erica.mi/technology.html
http://www.mcmel.org/erica.mi/technology.html

Other Resources

Woolfolk, Anita E. (1998). Educational Pyschology. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Eggen and Kauchak. (2007). Educational Psychology. Colombus, OH: Pearson.