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 Kanazawa’s 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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I enjoy mededevil madrigals and early chants.
Otherwise classical, big band and crooners.
How is this different than saying asians are smarter than black people?
Does it mean ALL people that listen to instrumental only are smarter or that switching to instrumental only makes you smarter? No it doesn’t.
Just like not all Asians are smart or all black people are athletic.
99% of “singers” cannot sing worth crap. It’s mostly shouting, screaming, bellowing, monotonic drones, and off-key chanting. There are very few people who can truly sing. There is no true singing on today’s popular music or rap.
You mean the William Tell Overture composed by Gioachino Rossini
The other two I am not familiar with.
Operas are part drama, so whenever I first attend or watch an opera that is new to me, I treat them like I would a play or film, which means I don’t read the synopsis or libretto ahead of time, and I utilize sub/surtitles. Second, third, fourth, etc. viewings are another matter.
Yippee! How about playing a couple of bars of the Lone Ranger theme
Here you go....
https://youtu.be/jPoKQbkDcnY?t=35
DIT DEE DEE DAW...
DIT DEE DEE DAAAAAAW!
‘In Memory of Elizabeth Reed’ — Great, indeed!
I also LOVE ‘Jessica.’
‘Little Martha’ is very good, too.
I was always so impressed the Allmans could produce such great instrumentals.
Why would anyone only listen to one kind of music?
Judy Garland could sing.
Blue Sky is best.
But it has a few words.
I prefer instrumentals. And there is a lot of good instrumental beach music, such as Surf Guitar. A favorite two-dvd instrumental which I loaded into my computer and blast out of my Sonos system in the summertime.
Funny. I was listening to KILL EM ALL by Metallica the time I was typing my thesis in college..
You would like Kabuki. I can only understand bits and pieces of the language, however. If you pay attention you can follow along. Good stuff.
He’s nothing compared to Sun Ra....
See # 18 for a slightly different version of this song. :^)
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