Table of Contents: 1 Introduction.. .5 2 literature review.… 6 2.1 Music instruments and academic performance............ .6 2.2 Music instruments'influence on different areas of learning..... 6 2.3 Some defects in done researches.................... 7 3 Method. 3.1 Using questionnaires to collect objective facts of students ........ .7 3.2 Using interviews to collect subjective feelings of students..........................8 4 Result .9 4.1 Musical instruments help students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance 9 4.2 Musical instruments have slight influence on students of scence and engineering..........9 4.3findings of the interviews.........10 5 Discussion.... 11 5.1Explanations of the findings.11 5.2Importance of the findings11 5.3 Comparison with previous research..... 11 5.4Alternative explanations of the findings. 11 6Conclusion .12 6.1Summary of objectives and approaches of this paper.1 6.2 Major findings of this paper .......... 12 6.3Important implications of this paper's findings 12 6.4 Future work needed in the field.................. 2 7Reference.... .13 8 About the authors… 14 3/143 / 14 Table of Contents: 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................5 2 literature review.............................................................................................................6 2.1 Music instruments and academic performance.................................................................. 6 2.2 Music instruments’ influence on different areas of learning............................................... 6 2.3 Some defects in done researches......................................................................................7 3 Method.............................................................................................................................7 3.1 Using questionnaires to collect objective facts of students ............................................ 7 3.2 Using interviews to collect subjective feelings of students ............................................. 8 4 Result .............................................................................................................................9 4.1 Musical instruments help students of liberal arts achieve better academic performance 9 4.2 Musical instruments have slight influence on students of science and engineering.......... 9 4.3 findings of the interviews ........................................................................................... 10 5 Discussion....................................................................................................................11 5.1 Explanations of the findings ....................................................................................... 11 5.2 Importance of the findings.......................................................................................... 11 5.3 Comparison with previous research............................................................................. 11 5.4 Alternative explanations of the findings...................................................................... 11 6 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................12 6.1 Summary of objectives and approaches of this paper................................................... 12 6.2 Major findings of this paper ....................................................................................... 12 6.3 Important implications of this paper’s findings............................................................ 12 6.4 Future work needed in the field.................................................................................. 12 7 Reference......................................................................................................................13 8 About the authors .......................................................................................................14