Mozart 'makes maths easier' (WOLFGANG AMADEUS ALERT)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 19, 2002 | Paul Stokes

[St.Chuck]

As for Mozart - they have found that playing it to young children, even playing it around pregnant mothers, is good for babies overall health and intelligence. The man was obviously writing with God's assistance.

Who is they? Last I heard this legend has been debunked.

[The Red Zone]

Music is a very mathematical art. The acoustic frequencies and musical intervals of harmony, the timing of rhythm, all represent mathematical relationships and logical thinking. The best organist one of my friends knew -- he could keep three lines of counterpoint going at once without missing a beat -- was a math major in college.

[irv]

everything thinks they need background music.

I always have. Wagner and Beethoven, mostly. Occasionally Jethro Tull.

[Prodigal Son]

Sounds like a good theory.

[Cvengr]

I used to work with some MDs who had performed some research o the issue with some psychiatrists. In a nutshell, they believed that near shortterm recall, such as memory of events or training within a 6 week period, tended to be reinforced by similar environment.

So if you always studied by music, your best response in testing would be with a music background.

Since most examinations aren't conducted with the same music background, their recomendations were to study without music. However, if one was studying 18hrs a day for several months straight, the theraputic and relaxing effect of music in and of itself might prove more beneficial than study in dead silence.

[ConservativeDude]

My two-year-old son has recently shown an alarming affinity for Beethoven....

I think I need to back track and take him through Bach and Mozart before "progressing" to Ludwig van....Beethoven is just so...intense, dramatic, expressive. I think he/I need to enjoy some of the joy and beauty in the first two of the big 3 before experiencing (notice I did not say "enjoying") Beethoven....