Musical aptitude and school performance: study of the case of the members of the program of symphonic bands of caldas (Colombia)

Children and young people have different challenges as they progress in their school development, one of them is the maintenance of high ranks in academic performance, music as a tool to improve sensory skills has been shown to have a positive influence when combined with In the educational field, the present research, based on this premise, set itself the objective of determining the academic performance of children and young people with musical aptitudes belonging to the Caldas Symphonic Bands Program. For this purpose, a methodology with a quantitative approach and a non-experimental transactional correlation design was used. Out of a total of 1,926, a sample was selected by conglomerates in a simple stage, of 482 instrumentalists (282 men and 200 women). For the rest, the Seashore Music Skills Test was chosen for the assessment of musical aptitudes, whose most relevant results showed that the correlations among all the variables that evaluate the musical aptitudes are all positive, besides being all significant with a significance of 5%. The highest is between the time and tonal memory (0.4991), while the most incorrect is between the intensity and timbre (0.1478). In summary, it could be determined that women present better grades in Spanish and mathematics than men, while the opposite occurs with respect to tonal memory