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Freebase Dali · 06-14-2012, 07:14 PM

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Seeing how babies respond to music from a very early age leads me to believe there's an actual emotional response to it that's ingrained in humans. Babies obviously don't conceptualize music in the way that older children do, but I think humans are equipped with the capacity to recognize music as something more than white noise, for lack of a better term, from the outset.
I think that as a child grows, he or she then begins to attribute meaning to it in a cultural sense, which keeps the emotional relevance evolving in a more intellectual way.

All that is to say that I don't think the appreciation of music is learned. I think there's an inherent capacity for recognizing it in a basic, emotional way from very early on. I think the only thing that's learned is how we build upon that foundation as we grow.

06-14-2012, 07:14 PM	#20 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	^ Seeing how babies respond to music from a very early age leads me to believe there's an actual emotional response to it that's ingrained in humans. Babies obviously don't conceptualize music in the way that older children do, but I think humans are equipped with the capacity to recognize music as something more than white noise, for lack of a better term, from the outset. I think that as a child grows, he or she then begins to attribute meaning to it in a cultural sense, which keeps the emotional relevance evolving in a more intellectual way. All that is to say that I don't think the appreciation of music is learned. I think there's an inherent capacity for recognizing it in a basic, emotional way from very early on. I think the only thing that's learned is how we build upon that foundation as we grow.