Effect Of Music Enrichment Programme On Mentally Challenged Children Academic Achievement, Adjustment & Level of Consciousness

The arts poetry, music and architecture, painting and sculpture arouse an intense feeling and urge to experience and appreciate both the sensible and the super sensible objects and though at first their representatives are indirect in terms of the physical expression that they directly appeal to the depth of the experience or feeling and create aesthetic joy and beauty. Music is absolutely concerned with the problem of emotional content value and beauty. The philosophy of music like many other branches of knowledge, claims attention on intellectual grounds than on utilization grounds. Music helps in the physical, mental and emotional development of a child. Music has an ability to rejuvenate the person with new energy. Music is also used as a strategy to treat the psychosomatic illness. Music has been employed as a therapeutical tool for correction of various physical disorders and emotional turbances. Music and other art were frequently used as the therapeutical agent in ancient societies. Music therapy is an interpersonal process in which the therapist uses music as a therapy for betterment of physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of clients and