Music and language organize sounds in time and space. Music introduces order, structure, timing, rhythm. It affects breath dynamics, heart rate, agitation. It affects the colour of our feelings, visual associations. He is simply a natural ‘teacher’ of life. The fetus reacts to music changes in motor activity. Babies respond to the music they hear, and they can imitate simple rhythms. It's got melody and intonation in it. The right brain hemisphere is liable for recognizing melody, rhythm, images, for understanding language and spatial orientation.

Singing and playing the instrument develops muscle coordination. The melodies and musical tracks containing the beginning, the mediate part and the ending form a foretaste of grammar. It turns out that good tonal memory and chord analysis is closely related to literacy. Children who achieved the best performance in music besides show the highest “age of reading”.
Singing has a peculiarly strong effect on the improvement of proceeding and voice. These properties form the basis of spoken and written language. any children, diagnosed as dyslexic, are little efficient in reading the sounds of speech and “don’t hear” certain subtle sounds in peculiar words and yet singing and chanting is simply a natural experience of slowing down the sounds of speech, which increases the chance of proceeding all the ingredients of the word.
The vowels utilized in singing have an extended duration. The placing of words in the musical context gives both the vocalist and the listener more time to hear and process all sounds within each word, and especially vowel sounds, which represent the timbre and form of the word. These are essential elements in the process of reading and pronunciation.
The process of extracting sounds and voice is crucial due to the improvement of the ‘internal ear’, which leads to the mastery of the sounds of speech and written language.
Most vocal music derives from spiritual rituals. During their course, music was taught by rhythmic repetitions. The songs were a stylized form of speech.
Singing and dancing can be a form for the top energies of the soul, for the hottest exuberance, erstwhile trying to give interior joy, deep gratitude, pride and a sense of unity and harmony with the universe:
Praise the meadows,
What plays with the sea waves,
She, the works of God's crown,
Grateful streams of purr,
It is hard to imagine the atmosphere of the Polish May, the most beautiful – as it is commonly said – month, without the mentioned song by Father Karol Antoniewicz “Praise the May meadows” which not only fills our temples, but reaches under the clouds, equal to the singing of the heavenly birds, erstwhile accompanied by the prayers of people who are inactive gathering “in May” at the roadside chapels.
Young Karol Wojtyła, writing in 1 of the early works about his “Slavic soul”, emphasized that in it he discovers “prays the cordial devotion that I perceive to all day.”
Jerzy Binkowski
![]() | Jerzy Binkowski – Born in 1949 in Gdynia. He graduated in doctrine and psychology from the Catholic University of Lublin. He graduated from the State Higher Theatre School in Warsaw. He worked mainly with youth – guidance and theatre. He's lived in Białystok for 40 years. He belongs to the Warsaw branch of the Association of Polish Writers. He published, among another things, “The Voices of the Desert”, “On the another side of the white birch”, “On the Way from Damascus”, “The Exile of God”, “It was the sky that struck man.” He is the author of the librett for "Cantata of Transfiguration" |