Posted on 05/23/2019 1:25:35 PM PDT by Mariner
here seems to be an air of pretension among aficionados of jazz and classical music, psychological research is giving them good reason.
A new study published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences suggests that those who prefer instrumental music tend to be more intelligent.
Study author Elena Racevska, a PhD student at Oxford Brookes University, became interested in how musical preference is tied to personality traits as she learned about the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, which presumes that more intelligent individuals seek more novel experiences compared to less intelligent people.
After reading Kanazawas papers, one of which was on the relationship between intelligence and musical preferences, we decided to further test his hypothesis using a different set of predictors namely, a different type of intelligence test (i.e. a nonverbal measure), and the uses of music questionnaire, says Racevska. We also measured a number of variables likely to have an effect in this relationship, such as taking part in extra-curricular music education, its type and duration.
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Bob Cobb seems to be a bright guy.
Once upon a time, "entertainment" was something that families engaged in at home, besides outside the home. Those families who could afford to, bought a piano and/or other instruments and children were given serious lessons! Classical music, ethnic music, and yes, even popular songs were deriguere! And those who didn't play an instrument sang.
What a wonderful story. Many of us were well educated in music and have a love for it. We have all been influenced by families who loved and enjoyed music.
I had no musicians in my family but we had a profound appreciation of music and my great grand Aunt sang at the Bushnell in her youth. Back in the day when all people had accomplishments.
Leni
Sadly, both of these piano shawls bit the dust/kind of disintegrated in the late '60s, so I only have picture and fond memories of them. OTOH I do have her apartment grand piano ensconced in my living room, as well as her tall, matching music chest.
In my experience, really smart people are the audience for jazz and sometimes also play jazz.
One of the first people I knew who was really into jazz is a professional mathematician.
T Bone Walker ?
Hey Leni, you great story teller you! Thanks for this latest - and making me recall my Aunt Mary’s black piano shawl - the fringe must have been 10 inches long. My grandparents gave me years of piano lessons, violin and drum and would be sad that I like jazz and opera more than playing the piano.
A friend of my dad’s was the great jazz pianist Johnny Guarnieri. Johnny played with Hampton and knew (and I think played with) Fats Waller.
And a former member of our church was a jazz player. Jazz is somewhat freeform, creative. But it’s not chaos. It’s a creative collaboration every time.
“There are no wrong notes in jazz, only wrong resolutions.”
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