| What Effect Composers Have On Your Child | 0 comments |
 30 May 2005 @ 17:46, by Raymond PowersYou have heard and read of the Mozart Effect -- playing classical music to your children raises their IQ -- which has been pretty well debunked. The Mozart Effect Read what a blogger considers the effect of playing music by other composers to your child. 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. Schöenberg effect: Child never repeats a word until he's used all the other words in his vocabulary. Sometimes talks backwards, up-side-down, even up-side-down and backwards -- usually in early teens. Eventually, people stop listening to him. Child blames them for their inability to understand him. 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." The John Cage Effect: Child is silent but rotates his arm clockwise then counterclockwise 45 minutes at time. Alec Wilder is offered a record contract if he can cut the piece down to 39 minutes. |