Jan 162010
I feel like when you listen to classical music your imagination and creativity just opens up and you feel a variety of emotions just pouring out of your soul.
I feel like when you listen to classical music your imagination and creativity just opens up and you feel a variety of emotions just pouring out of your soul.
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Ah, the skeptics are awake and on the prowl. Seriously, though, this is a topic that fairly breeds both skepticism and belief.
I think music of all kinds can affect your mental processes. Jazz excites some folks, rock others. I personally witnessed one young man whose thinking came alive when he listened to heavy metal and hard rock, even the screamer stuff. I listen to a wide, wide range of music including the softness and joy of Libera and other choirs, pure folk from many lands, sixties folk and folk-rock, a little country, eighties stuff like Survivor, and a lot of classical and classical-style music.
Some favorite artists in various genres are: Libera, The Land of Lakes Choirboys, Paul Robeson, Joan Baez, Liona Boyd, Christopher Parkening, Elton John, Glenn Yarbrough, Rod McKuen, John McCutcheon, Billy Joel, Jane Olivor, Janis Ian, Frank Sinatra, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Praetorius, Aaron Copland, A Perfect Circle, Peter Gabriel, Pete Seeger, Beverly Sills, and many more.
The music I choose depends somewhat on what I am doing. If I am writing, I will choose music sometimes that fits the topic and sometimes that is quite the opposite. When I just want to think, I will put on some Glenn Yarbrough or some Libera or some Copland or some Grieg or Smetana….whatever appeals to the moment.
I know it took a bit to get here, but the point is that even though music may not actually make you more intelligent, it certainly can stimulate the intelligence you have. It can awaken intelligence you didn’t even know you had or perhaps that you could not use to do the things you wan it to do.
Experiment with different kinds of music. If classical works for you, go for it! For believers in reincarnation, it is possible that the akashic record holds elements of your past, which may have included music. Could you have been a composer or performer of some accomplishment?
There is an awesome lot out there that we do not really know much about. Don’t let the naysayers deny your beliefs, but, rather, explore them and let them work for you. Yours is a great question. I hope you get a lot of great answers and very little sarcasm and disrespect.
If there is any correlation between listening to classical music and intelligence, it is not the listening that caused the intelligence, but rather the intelligence that led to the listening. I’d say people who are a little less moronic than the majority tend to be open to music that isn’t played on the local pop station, or even music that wasn’t made this year. Autonomous folk tend to form their own opinions on music rather than let record executives tell them what to listen to. Autonomous folk tend to be at least somewhat intelligent. If classical music makes you feel smarter, and that’s why you listen to it, you are an idiot. Wanna feel smart? Get smart. The brain’s a muscle. Exercise it.
As a child, my parents exposed me to a wide variety of classical music. I was of the best kind of students. Today I’m a very smart person and doing excellent in business, art, etc. and in everything I undertake. Don’t pay attention to non-smart envious people saying this is not true.
That’s good. Now if you act on any of those, including study, practice and discipline, those actions might make you smarter. Listening to music will not. It has been proven it does not / not in dispute / end of vogue wave of selling a lot of books of pseudo-science and compilation CD’s.
Classical music doesn’t (can’t) make you smarter. However, it can help with concentration and can stimulate various parts of the brain. As humans, we are often inhibited about allowing our creativity and imagination run riot. Music can help with this (ANY music; not just classical).
it only works if you are wearing reading glasses, even if you don’t need them. you need some poetry books too, keats it’s ok.
“As a child, my parents exposed me to a wide variety of classical music. I was of the best kind of students. Today I’m a very smart person and doing excellent in business, art, etc. and in everything I undertake. Don’t pay attention to non-smart envious people saying this is not true.”
Oh yea, and I’ve, too, been listening to lots of classical music since I’ve been a child, and I’m lazy and stupid.
So please, do pay attention to non-smart envious ppl saying its not true
“I’d say people who are a little less moronic than the majority tend to be open to music that isn’t played on the local pop station, or even music that wasn’t made this year.”
No. Just no.
As soon as personal ambitions and wannabe-snobbery come into play, which is hardly “intelligent” by itself, people will jump on anything that is “said” to be “complex”, “sophisticated” and “technically demanding” as well, and that would include lots of classical and none of the “local pop station” repertoire.
The courageous distribution of “sheeple” and “autonomous thinkers” in the two neatly categorized camps works here just as badly as with “believers” and “atheists”, I’m afraid.