How you your babies, born and unborn, and young children, respond to classical music? Can you get them early? Or is it futile to influence their tastes? Have you any stories about your child having a strong reaction to music at a very young age? Did you try?
I was born to a cassette recording of Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 no. 1 (my mom was listening to music to calm herself down through labour), and was a very quiet newborn who didn't cry much and seemed fascinated by the music instead. It's been all downhill from there unfortunately.
Quote from: milk on September 23, 2017, 06:52:42 PM
How you your babies, born and unborn, and young children, respond to classical music? Can you get them early? Or is it futile to influence their tastes? Have you any stories about your child having a strong reaction to music at a very young age? Did you try?
I've been playing classical music to my son since he was born. He's now 8 and enjoys going to the symphony with me. But he's into all kinds of music, his favorite being anything with a good beat meaning Techno, he loves Enya which he plays at night when its bed time, and he loves video game music.
This is all mostly because of me playing music all the time around him, but I've also allowed him to discover his own likes and dislikes, but he's gravitated more towards what I enjoy.
I played the Baby Einstein videos to him when he was between 1-2 and he loved them, filled with colorful images and the music of Mozart and Beethoven. Even bought him little baby instruments which was fun for him to play his own music.
There is some of my experiences, and I'm sure every parent's is different too.
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 23, 2017, 07:10:20 PM
I've been playing classical music to my son since he was born. He's now 8 and enjoys going to the symphony with me. But he's into all kinds of music, his favorite being anything with a good beat meaning Techno, he loves Enya which he plays at night when its bed time, and he loves video game music.
This is all mostly because of me playing music all the time around him, but I've also allowed him to discover his own likes and dislikes, but he's gravitated more towards what I enjoy.
I played the Baby Einstein videos to him when he was between 1-2 and he loved them, filled with colorful images and the music of Mozart and Beethoven. Even bought him little baby instruments which was fun for him to play his own music.
There is some of my experiences, and I'm sure every parent's is different too.
thank you. I think it's fun for people to share their experiences even if we can come to no conclusion. Except maybe it can't hurt. Well, Xenakis during birth might be traumatic.
I know this woman is a babe, Sarah Chang:
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6c/f9/7f/6cf97f4857cefa28fdd265d5584440b3--desert-island-inspiring-people.jpg)
Whoops...wrong thread. ;D
Quote from: α | ì Æ ñ on September 23, 2017, 09:29:18 PM
Vivaldi's Four Seasons was played obsessively by my mother (even though she doesn't listen to classical music ??? ) when I was in the womb (and in the first 2 years of my life) and look how I turned out :laugh:
I can't judge how you turned out but I wonder what would have happened had it ben Ligeti or Stockhausen.
Quote from: α | ì Æ ñ on September 23, 2017, 11:45:13 PM
On another note, I have read several times about kids (as in between 4-7) programs using Stockhausen and the kids actually reacting very positively to it, which I think is very cool :)
well, this is another topic, but I'm sure there is lots of research into why people react to things the way they do. I wonder if a lot of resistance to forms of music is learned/influenced by propaganda. And really off-topic comment: music has become louder, less tonally rich and structurally complex...anyway...
Reminded me of this..
(https://i.nahraj.to/f/1OHD.jpg)
There's some evidence I think of babies responding in the womb to music.
Quote from: Rinaldo on September 24, 2017, 07:25:12 AM
Reminded me of this..
(https://i.nahraj.to/f/1OHD.jpg)
;D
Quote from: vandermolen on September 24, 2017, 10:06:35 AM
There's some evidence I think of babies responding in the womb to music.
I'm curious about this. They say the babies can hear and respond to music/sound. Generally, it seems there is not much evidence for any specific result in babies pre or post birth. But they do hear! My baby will certainly get a bit of Bach before arrival.
Baby after Berg: α | ì Æ ñ
:P
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 23, 2017, 09:17:14 PM
I know this woman is a babe, Sarah Chang:
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6c/f9/7f/6cf97f4857cefa28fdd265d5584440b3--desert-island-inspiring-people.jpg)
Whoops...wrong thread. ;D
Sarah was a baby at one time, and she plays classical music, so very relevant. :)
If you play your baby Schoenberg every day, they're sure to grow up thinking others are crazy to say Schoenberg's music has no tunes in it.
Seriously, though, it is good to expose a young child to a wide range of music, because what's familiar is what's loved.
Oh, and as a new uncle, congratulations to a soon-to-be father!
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 25, 2017, 07:44:31 AM
Sarah was a baby at one time, and she plays classical music, so very relevant. :)
A good point, Greg. ;D
I recall a biography of Prokofiev where it was mentioned that his mother often played Beethoven's works on the piano almost exclusively during his earliest years. He seemed to think that her playing was an important influence on his development.
Quote from: Mahlerian on September 25, 2017, 08:12:40 AMSeriously, though, it is good to expose a young child to a wide range of music, because what's familiar is what's loved.
Depends. I grew up with Penderecki blasting from my father's study and it steered me off 20th century classical music for years, because I thought it's all just as loud & ominous & uncomprehensible, as it was for me back then.
Quote from: Rinaldo on September 25, 2017, 09:53:08 AM
Depends. I grew up with Penderecki blasting from my father's study and it steered me off 20th century classical music for years, because I thought it's all just as loud & ominous & uncomprehensible, as it was for me back then.
Awesome! Your father sounds like someone I'd like to hang out with. Not that wouldn't mind hanging out with you, too, Rinaldo. ;) ;D I'm not a big Penderecki fan of course, but the fact that he's listening to something like that makes me think he'd be open to hearing some Schnittke. 8)
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 25, 2017, 10:06:32 AMAwesome! Your father sounds like someone I'd like to hang out with. Not that wouldn't mind hanging out with you, too, Rinaldo. ;) ;D I'm not a big Penderecki fan of course, but the fact that he's listening to something like that makes me think he'd be open to hearing some Schnittke. 8)
He's an astrophysicist, so if you're up for a lecture about neutron stars and quasars, I can hook you up! Plus I'm positive he's got a few Schnittke LPs in his vinyl collection.
Quote from: Mahlerian on September 25, 2017, 08:12:40 AM
If you play your baby Schoenberg every day, they're sure to grow up thinking others are crazy to say Schoenberg's music has no tunes in it.
Seriously, though, it is good to expose a young child to a wide range of music, because what's familiar is what's loved.
Oh, and as a new uncle, congratulations to a soon-to-be father!
thanks! I'm terrified!
Quote from: milk on September 25, 2017, 12:29:10 AM
I'm curious about this. They say the babies can hear and respond to music/sound. Generally, it seems there is not much evidence for any specific result in babies pre or post birth. But they do hear! My baby will certainly get a bit of Bach before arrival.
I've heard of babies kicking in the womb, apparently in response to music.
Quote from: vandermolen on September 26, 2017, 01:03:47 AM
I've heard of babies kicking in the womb, apparently in response to music.
I've heard this too...in fact I think it's in one of my baby-books. That's not a tiny book. It's a book about babies.
Quote from: milk on September 26, 2017, 02:36:31 AM
I've heard this too...in fact I think it's in one of my baby-books. That's not a tiny book. It's a book about babies.
Pleased to hear this! It could also, of course, have been a tiny book about babies.
8)
Quote from: vandermolen on September 26, 2017, 03:19:36 AM
Pleased to hear this! It could also, of course, have been a tiny book about babies.
8)
;D