To Thread - Forum Home

The Mudcat Café TM
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=100064
12 messages

Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart

19 Mar 07 - 10:11 PM (#2001647)
Subject: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: Ebbie

It's official. Learning and playing music enhances many facets of your being.

Don't Cut Those Music Classes


19 Mar 07 - 10:20 PM (#2001660)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: GUEST,meself

How do you explain some of our favourite Mudcat characters, then?


19 Mar 07 - 10:34 PM (#2001673)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: frogprince

A. Some of us hang out here, but can't play (but wish we could).
B. We can only guess how much more stoopuder some others would be
   if they weren't musical. : )


19 Mar 07 - 10:51 PM (#2001688)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: Peace

Interesting article here. Takes about 5 seconds to load.


19 Mar 07 - 11:30 PM (#2001711)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: The Fooles Troupe

This idea is not new - it's just that now there seems to be some hard evidence..


20 Mar 07 - 12:50 AM (#2001737)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: Jim Lad

My wife plays in a five piece band. Four out of the five have PHDs.
The guitarist doesn't. hmmm!


20 Mar 07 - 01:05 AM (#2001744)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: The Fooles Troupe

So, I take it that the group has no drummer then, Jim Lad!


20 Mar 07 - 07:44 AM (#2001911)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: jacqui.c

LOL Robin!


20 Mar 07 - 11:00 AM (#2002095)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: autolycus

It's not a new thought.

   I was writing on the fall-out value of doing art in school for my Post-Grad.Cert. in Education in the early 80s,based on material published before then. (See the works of Herbert Read).

   And the idea of making Art the basis of education goes back to Plato. As Read points out at the beginning of his "Education through Art",it was an idea of Plato's admired but taken up by no-one except Schiller early in the 19th century.



   Apparently,beethoven used to greet his servants with,"Good morning,stupid!"


20 Mar 07 - 11:39 AM (#2002133)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: GUEST,meself

I guess he didn't buy into the whole self-esteem thing ...


20 Mar 07 - 11:52 AM (#2002147)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: Peace

Maybe he couldn't hear their responses.


20 Mar 07 - 12:21 PM (#2002190)
Subject: RE: Ah ha! Playing Music Makes You Smart
From: Jim Lad

Foolestroupe: Sorry I thought they were talking about musicians.