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Ability to read music suggest other talents?
A niece of mine plays while reading - she's very strong in math. A daughter of friends plays while reading - merely ok in math, but a wizard in language. My talents favor the visual arts - can't read for...
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I read music, and learn languages easily, but don't see any correlation necessarily....
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I would not be surprised if there is a connection between math and music. More specifically, often people that like math and physics are also drawn to music. There are many examples of this. For example I believe that Einstein had an interest in the violin. I love the guitar and spent my life in science (physics) and quite a few of the people I knew in the field were also musicians. Wish I could say more about this, but a few years ago I began to write about the physics of music. Only did about 100 pages and lost interest.
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Math and music, huge correlation.
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LadysSolo, which languages present higher or lower levels of difficulty?
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Yes, there is tons of scholarship on this. Very interesting stuff.
But the connection is between math and music, not the ability to read music. Reading music is a wonderful skill, because it opens doors to a vast repertoire of compositions and allows one to easily communicate ideas, but it's hardly indicative of anything else. There are plenty of children (and people) who are highly skilled at languages or math and cannot read music (not because they can't, but because they never learned), just as there a great many people who can read music but are not particularly gifted at language or math. Moreover, reading music doesn't automatically beget musical skill. Ability in performance or composition doesn't derive from reading music. But ability in performance and, especially, composition is where much of the correlations are to be found. |
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Spanish and French, very easy. Amharic, pretty hard. German - mid-range in difficulty.
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Is the greater difficulty of the Amharic having to do with the visual aspect, or is there more to it than that?
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EDIT: Oh! Do you mean to say that the music described by some sheet music is "not so simple?" Absolutely there are different levels of complexity in written music, but the ability to play syncopation, hemiola, etc. is not the same as being able to read it. With instruction and practice, just about anyone could read (I'm talking visually, not sightreading) complex syncopation: they could look at the page and say "That's an eighth note rest followed by a C3 eighth note followed by a triplet," etc. In short, they could identify and articulate what is on the page. But yes, I fully concur that doesn't automatically translate into the ability to actually play what's on the page, to realize the written text as it were. Last edited by Erithon; 02-13-2018 at 09:59 PM. |
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Yes!
You get beyond simple quarters and eighths, there's math out the wazoo! |
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And then there's the science of acoustics: even more math--we can't escape it lol |
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It shows that you've got a way with symbolic logic.
Bob
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For me, a music score is another artist's visual sense, completely logical as I study the components' meanings, that I don't relate to in their visual arrangement (I'm not knowingly dyslexic). Maybe it comes down to processor speed and short term cache memory, things of which I'm in short supply. Dang it, because why should math be hard? Really, it's orderly and sensible.
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Anyone who has difficulties with symbolic logic will struggle with learning math and music, even though he may be able to grasp the deep concepts of either or both. Bob
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