source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:23:04 +0100 Subject: RE: Mozart From: "Paul H. Erlich" >}My wife was just telling me about the Governor of a southern state who >}wants to give the parents of every newborn child a CD of Mozart. He says >}it is fact that children/babies that are exposed to classical music are >}better at math. I'm sure you know where I'm going with this! Since 12tet >}is only an approximation how can this be possible? My wife is a >}classically trained pianist and believes it has nothing to do with the >}math (funny) but with the complexity of the melodies and harmonies. Any >}thoughts? Hey, maybe my poor math skills are the result of my parents >}love for Polka music? > >I completely agree with your wife. First of all, Mozart can't be played in >just intonation. Secondly, there is no correspondence between our conscious >manipulation of numerical quantities and the psychoacoustic phenomena related >to small integers. Thirdly, appreciation of Mozart requires not only passive >listenening but also memory and the ability to keep some thoughts in one's >mind while others are being worked out, and then to bring all these thoughts >together. I would suspect not only mathematical but generally any logical, >deductive thinking would be enhanced by early exposure to Mozart. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Paul H. Erlich" Subject: RE: Surman/b5 ratios PostedDate: 15-01-98 20:44:22 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 15-01-98 20:43:48-15-01-98 20:43:49,15-01-98 20:43:34-15-01-98 20:43:35 DeliveredDate: 15-01-98 20:43:35 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125658D.006C5E46; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:44:09 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20346; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:44:22 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:44:22 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA20116 Received: (qmail 16379 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1998 11:44:20 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jan 1998 11:44:20 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu