Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Music effect
I'm quite the Mozart fan so even if a new (well, February) report is correct that "the Mozart effect is a fraud" (read the article from the news service of Stanford University), I don't care!
Clever people that they are, A Dog's Life and Reflections in D Minor started a great little game in reaction. Here's the deal: If hearing Mozart intra-utero and in early developing years boosts a child's intelligence and sense of joy, what would be the effect of listening to other composers? Below are some selections from their entries plus a couple of mine. Feel free to add your own.
Clever people that they are, A Dog's Life and Reflections in D Minor started a great little game in reaction. Here's the deal: If hearing Mozart intra-utero and in early developing years boosts a child's intelligence and sense of joy, what would be the effect of listening to other composers? Below are some selections from their entries plus a couple of mine. Feel free to add your own.
Liszt effect: Child speaks rapidly and extravagantly, but never really says anything important.
Bruckner effect: Child speaks very slowly and repeats himself frequently. Gains reputation for profundity.
Wagner effect: Child becomes a megalomaniac. May eventually marry his sister.
Mahler effect: Child continually screams - at great length and volume - that he’s dying. (But is treated as if he's very imortant.)
Schoenberg effect: Child never repeats a word until he’s used all the other words in his vocabulary. Sometimes talks backwards. Eventually, people stop listening to him. Child blames them for their inability to understand him.
Beethoven effect: While young, child expresses himself in dramatic and extremely emotive ways, often shouting. Older, he becomes utterly withdrawn and lovelorn.
Bach effect: Child speaks with great precision and keeps his clothes in ever-descending size order. Probably becomes a statistician.
Babbitt effect: Child gibbers nonsense all the time. Eventually, people stop listening to him. Child doesn’t care because all his playmates think he’s cool.
Glass Effect: Child repeats himself incessantly. (Nonetheless, some adults tell him he's brilliant and wonderful.)
Cage Effect: Child will be completely silent for four and half minutes and then insist that he has just said something highly important.
Hovhaness Effect: Child grows to be very spiritual, attracted to Eastern religions. Also has pyromaniac tendencies.
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