Does intelligence matter?

I think all music requires a degree of intelligence to appreciate. That's why you don't see Sea Barnacles and Domesticated Goldfish perusing record stores.

Conor Fynes wrote: I think all music requires a degree of intelligence to appreciate. That's why you don't see Sea Barnacles and Domesticated Goldfish perusing record stores.

Thought of this www.fat-pie.com/musicmouth.htm and www.fat-pie.com/musicguess.htm




Edited by Phulax-Wolfgang - February 28 2011 at 16:10

I think that Prog attracts a certain sort of personality which gets bored easily and seeks stimulation, and this may be linked to intelligence, but that's as far as it goes.  I know plenty of highly intelligent people who don't listen to Prog, or aren't interested even in music.  However,  I can't say I've met any proggers who can be described as stupid.

 I certainly don't think that an ability in foreign languages such as Ancient Greek or Latin can be linked to appreciation of Prog.  And knowing these languages doesn't automatically make you intelligent.  Intelligence has many forms and doesn't dictate taste.

Music is very abstract. So is the humour of Monty Python's Flying Circus. I guess either you get it or you don't regardless of genre. I get a lot of musical styles but what I don't get is garbage that is manafactured by the record execs. 

Vibrationbaby wrote: Music is very abstract. So is the humour of Monty Python's Flying Circus. I guess either you get it or you don't regardless of genre. I get a lot of musical styles but what I don't get is garbage that is manafactured by the record execs.

I can only agree. 'YOU'RE NOT A YES-MAN ARE YOU?' - 'NO, ERM...'


Edited by Phulax-Wolfgang - February 28 2011 at 16:03

When talking about intelligence and it's relation to something, it gets kinda complicated, as there are different types of intelligence, and a given individual may have different amounts of any given type of intelligence.
          Someone said before that music cannot solve world problems.
           Never underestimate the capabilities of music-listening to it can be a profound experience, and it can inspire people, and move mountains!

Phulax-Wolfgang wrote: Didn't Jethro Tull help oust a dictator or something? Blasting some at his hiding place or something. That's a problem music has helped.

I do see what you are getting at-i guess music helps to inspire someone, so helping in big problems in a kind of indirect way, you might say, or in a symbolic way

Duh?

Conor Fynes wrote: I think all music requires a degree of intelligence to appreciate. That's why you don't see Sea Barnacles and Domesticated Goldfish perusing record stores.

You've never been to Australia have you?

KoS wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: Is anybody interrested in music these days? It is so secondary that people take it for granted . It's everywhere. TV, movies, games etc. Most of tEarth's population think what  Bieber and Céline Dion do  is music.  I remember back in 2007 ( I think ) Joshua Bell who is considered to be one of the top clasical violin virtuosos ( and highest paid ) on the planet took his 3 million dollar Stratavarios vilion into the Washington DC metro during rush hour and played for about an hour and collected about $ 30 and hardly anyone stopped to admire his playing. One woman stopped and said that it was "fantastic " Of course it was a publicity stunt staged by the Washington Post just to illustrate how clued out people are. I dunno,  were there any intelligent people passing by besides that woman. uh, because people had places to go, classes to attend, jobs to get to, children to drop off/pick up?

A rose in a field of corn is a weed.