¶ … Harmonic Accompaniment on the Development of Music Aptitude and Singing Achievement The rationale of the scrutinize was to investigate the effect of xylophones harmonic accompaniment on the tone realization and tone improvisation of young children[aged eight].It provide the children cognitive development, multiple intelligence emphasis on music and bodily kinesthetic intelligence which will involve auditory, visual and kinesthetic stimuli.

It entails rhythmic development, music amptitude which test the effect of harmonic accompaniment on music development and music amptitude children vocal development and finally the effect of harmonic accompaniment on singing achievement.Even though result based on research on singing achievement between the children which had song instruction with a root melody accompaniment had no significant on tone attainment according to Gordon's (1982)IMMA, there was significance effect on singing achievement between children who received song instruction with root melody accompaniment.Xylophones which comes from a Greek word 'xylon'meaning wooden sound.It is from percussion family of musical instrument which is believed to have originated from Africa and Asia but now found around the continents.

Cognitive development is the making up of ideas processes, these include making decision of your own, solving a problem and remembering through different stages of human being.Piaget's theory (1896-1980) of cognitive development analyze how children respond to their natural environment .As Atherton (2010) continues to build on Jean Piaget theory, he describes a child's knowledge as composed of schemas which are modified by complementary processes that assimilation and accommodation.In this stage which fall under the concrete operations stage according to Jean Piaget, children have the ability to think and relate by use of logical and coherent action.This makes children aged eight to be in apposition to identify and relate the sounds from xylophones to improve their music this gives the tonal variation.He agues that it is an a trial for one to balance between assimilation and accommodation (equilibration).He came up with the stages of cognitive development based on Peaget's theory;

Sensory motor stage (infancy); in this stage there is no use of symbols but intelligent is showed by motor activity.Permanency of objects they get at seven months.Interllectuals and few language is developed.

Pre-operational stage (early childhood); intelligent is showed through symbols, mature languages.Thinking is egocentric, none logical, not irreversible.

Concrete operational stage (elementary and adolescence); there is conservation of weight, volme, mass, number, area, liquid and lengh.Intelligent relation is of objects in logical and manipulation

Formal operational stage (adolescence and adulthood); Intelligence is through abstract in use of symbols.They are egocentric.

According to Howard Gardner in 1983,in his theory he says that intelligence as once described in IQ test do not explain cognitive abilities in all aspect from children .It tells that as children takes more time in learning a simple concept may understand deeper the whole concept than children who learn faster especially in mathematics (multiplication).This has brought different reaction because most psychologist look at it that differentiation about the concept of intelligence is not backed up by the practical significance of the approaches from the theory.From the recent cognitive and document which states that the far to which children posses various types of mind makes them perform, understand, remember and learn in various ways.According to Howard, logical mathematics analysis, musical thinking, language, spatial representation and an understanding of other individuals.

If one cannot reach the agreement in the strength of these intelligence the intelligent are invoked and used in combination to perform other tasks.He says that from these differences affects the learning system that takes all to be taught with the same resources in one way so that equivalent testing is done to the learner.Our system of education is greatly biased to logical quantitative modes, assessment and linguistically.The learnig ways (types of intelligence);

Musical; a child brings out sensitivity to sounds and rhythm due to love of music, they learn best with background music.They learn well in lesson which is changed to lyrics with tools like radio, multimedia, musical instrument. Interpersonal is where children enjoy and share with others, they have sympathy. They learn best in seminars, group activities, E-mail, video .Visual Spatial is whereby the child knows a lot about the environment, drawing physical imagery and their resources are charts and photographs. Linguistic is now the use of words by children for efficacy; they make stories or poetry and even reading with their resources being computer, books and games. While visual helps children to get concrete concept on spatial...

Logical mathematics children are interested in patterns and experiments ends up performing well in arithmetic.
From the content involving bodily kinesthetic, the key element of the bodily kinesthetic, intelligence is the ability to use one's bodily movement skillfully and capacity to skills in objects touching.This involve how to use xylophones to produce music with the correct tonal variation.It also contains a sense of timing, ability to train responses to be as reflexes, a proving sense of purpose of physical doing.This makes these children to learn more effectively when they use xylophones by involving their muscular movement (playing it) making them to enjoy music by singing making them learn best because they remember through verbal memory.

From the continent of musical, it goes with the ability to sense rhythm, sounds, tones and the musical itself.For children to have excellent pitch they always have high musical intelligence, sometimes absolute pitch and this makes them in a position to help them achieve their singing and music aptitude

According to Gordon Institute for Music Learning (GIML)music aptitude like talent which one might have should be given to achild at early stages of their life.Music aptitude which is spread among different population, everyone has the ability to succeed in music.People have different aptitude, few have low and high aptitude while majority have neither high nor low but are average in aptitude.Since distinctive method of teaching is used achild finds it difficult to succeed in music.These children of average aptitude receives a lot of tonal content plus rhythmic content more than children of low aptitude and ones of high aptitude receives a lot of content than average ones.This makes teachers to avoid boring children and not to stress others.

Music aptitude can also be measured but with only valid music aptitude test.Ones talent cannot be determine by ability to achieve but on significant music achievement.This is because children gets different rich musical and devoted efforts.However children cannot be judged through aptitude testing to be excluded or included in music activities, all children have a right to education to music though it helps to cater for the need of every child by the teacher.It is essential to consider the level of the learner to identify the correct music aptitude test.

Research which has been done about the development and stabilized music aptitude shows that music aptitude is developed at young stages of life. Though at birth aptitude of the child tend to be inmate, it can vary upto age of nine depending of the effectiveness and diversity of the music experience the child have.Past nine years a child is not able to achieve in music more than one's previous music aptitude.It important that children gets lots of best quality of formal instruction and informal assistance in music for them to identify their ability to music accomplishment in the stages of their life.It is important to have informal music experience before reaching five years old.

There are two types of music aptitude;stabilized and development.Music aptitude is also multidimensional, and the document has addendums which are;improvisation, types of stages of auditory, music learning theory and orientation intentionality as component of creative.As a child is taught using the xylophones they tend to develop musical aptitude at this level (eight years).This makes achild to relate the sounds produced by xylophones with the music so that a comprehensive tone realization and tone improvisation is achieved.

This brings us to different types of music aptitude tests that can be done by the teachers to identify the type learner are being taken care of. According to Gordon (1997) theory we have two major ones; the first being the complete IQ Test which is checking how smart one is from the mind, the complete aptitude Test involves intelligence whether in words or numbers. Others are Test of analytical skill which test drawing skills, The Acuity skill test involve simple repetition activity, The Technical Skill Test is how one can technically and mechanically feel things and Verbal Reasoning Test; it involves word reasoning

The theme of the research on effect of harmonic accompaniment or instruction on music developmental music aptitude children vocal development was to find the effect of harmonic accompaniment to the children on tonal improvisation.Some main aim of the research were;to find if age affect tonal improvisation performance of children at different grades;find if increasing root melody accompaniment to instruction of the song affect the use of harmonic rhythm and changes tonal improvisation.For comprehensive music curriculum there must be improvisation.through that children can…