MULTIPLE INTELIGENCE (Musical Rhythmic)

Produce and appreciate forms of musical expressiveness

• Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber
• The capacity to think in music, to be able to hear patterns, recognize them, and perhaps manipulate them
• People don't just remember music easily - they can't get it out of their minds, it's so omnipresent
• Learns through sounds, rhythms, tones, beats, music produced by other people or present in the environment

This is the knowing that happens through sound and vibration.  This intelligence is not limited to music and rhythm.  Some refer to this intelligence as auditory-vibrational, for it deals with the whole realm of sound, tones, beats, and vibrational patterns as well as music.  
If you are strong in this intelligence area, you likely have a love of music and rhythmic patters.  You are probably very sensitive to sounds in the environment;  the chirp of a cricket, rain on he roof, varying traffic patters.  You may study and work better with music in the background.  You can often reproduce a melody or rhythmic pattern after hearing it only once.  Various sounds, tones, and rhythms may have a visible effect on you-- others can often see a change in facial expression, body movement, or emotional response.  You probably like to create music and enjoy listening to a wide variety of music.  You may be skilled at mimicking sounds, language accents, and others' speech patterns, and you can probably readily recognize different musical instruments in a composition.
Careers:Music therapist, advertising professionals, motion picture soundtrack creators, music teachers, piano tuners, music studio directors and recorders, song writers, music performers, conductors, sound engineers, music copyists
BENEFITS to you of developing and enhancing your Sound Smarts intelligence include: 

• Knowledge of how to lower stress through music and rhythm
• Enhanced abilities to promote greater creativity in yourself and others
• Discovering your hidden capacities for learning and for remembering information, peoples names, a shopping list, and so on
• Discovering how to use music, rhythm, and sound to shift moods to more optimal states of being
• Knowledge of how to use music and sound to deepen personal relationships with others

Teaching Resources

• Lyrics or audio files of patriotic protest
• Period and other historical music

Basic MI Activities - Teaching Activities

• Analysis of song lyrics
• Composition of song lyrics
• Design and publish PowerPoint presentations which incorporate music and visual elements

Instructional Strategies - Teaching Activities

• Simulations
• Song analysis
• Creative song writing
• Performances

Musical intelligence is that special ability to recognize tonal patterns, rhythm and beat.  In other words, it is the ability to understand and express well numerous musical forms.  Such learners are most sensitive to environmental sounds, the human voice and musical instruments.  In short, they possess a strong ear for music.  Unlike the average person, rhythms, musical patterns, tones, and various sounds often have a more visible effect on them, in that you can easily detect a change in their facial expressions, emotional responses, and/or specific body movements.  As a music teacher once said to me, they have music constantly 'swimming' in their heads.  They are sensitive to rhythm, pitch and melody, including sounds in the environment such as rain on a roof, various traffic patterns, even the chirp of a cricket.

• Young children can often be heard banging on pots and/or singing nonsense songs to themselves in the bathtub.  Children with a dominant musical intelligence may enjoy a hum and easily turn sounds into rhythms; they retain melodies and lyrics well. 
• Older children acquire good memories for lyrics, perhaps even emitting the odd wince here and there when their parents sing "Happy Birthday" off key.  Such children often play an instrument quite well. They are often quite skilled at mimicking language accents, sounds, the speech patterns of others, and recognizing different musical instruments in a composition.  
• Adults enjoy creating, singing and listening to a wide variety of music, in short, they love music and its various rhythmical patterns.  They can often reproduce a melody or rhythmic pattern after hearing it only once.

People Examples:

Mozart
Bach
Beethoven     
Debussy
Gershwin
Haydn
Tchaikovsky
Chopin
Scott Joplin
John Lennon
Stevie Wonder
Burt Bacharach
Carole King
John Williams
Carlos Santana