Is musical ability genetic?
Posted: 09 Feb 2015
It is a question which somehow made the foundation for the Enlightenment. It has actually been a long tradition to write intentionally obscure, making the real message stand between the lines (in the same way as the totality of instruments in a song may be what carries the real message, and not the written down parts (the notations of the singular instruments) which played together make the totality). Personally do I find it intriguing; a little bit like the scavenges from childhood, but I understand and respect the idea that a text and a musical piece should be democratic.Gaja wrote:I was just trying to make a joke. I left university, because all the intellectuality for thensake of intellectuality was disturbing to me. Not that nothing relevant comes out of it, but I think if one really understands a problem and believes that it is worth a discussion, then there should be nothing stopping them from making it understandable to the people who are no academics. While I find it fascinating that people are able to express themselves like that (and I can too, if I must - at least in german), I find it questionable to make the information only accessible to an elite group (and many times even this group has to reread certain sentences in order to understand). To be fair, texts by US authors tend to be much easier to understand, whereas german texts tend to be really difficult (stuff like Weber or Gadamer etc), and incomprehensible. I know a guy whose PHD thesis was rated excellent, because the professor didn't understand what he was saying. Something is wrong about this.
I have bought quite a bit from betterworldbooks where they often run sale on 5 used books for 30$ inlusive postage, but as I understand you I would recommend to use those 30$ on REs, on the sales run by jrrshop, audiodeluxe etc., on reasontalk etc instead.Anyway this is a Forum for users of music software. I don't care for bibliography on psychology or any other academic subject really (unless it's about audio production), so even if Flandersh's bibliography is correct, I wouldn't dig that stuff up anyway, because it would probably mean I'd have to go to te uni's library (which I can't because I'm no student) or suscribe to one of tose really expensive scientific magazines that I'm really not interested in.
I think you are very right about thatIt appears to me that this particular discussion about aspergers, does not help many people here.