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The connection between reading music and words?
steve e.e asked:
I am doing a study about the connection between reading music and the termenology langange (words).
If a kid never had the chance to take phonics when was little because he had speech problems. He becomes a musician someday. If a person had trouble reading words, do you think he would have the same trouble reading (intreperting) music?
There has to be a connection between them both because reading music is just like reading a foreign languge or the newspaper. What do you guys think? If anybody ever done the same study please give me as much as information as you can please! Thank you!
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I am doing a study about the connection between reading music and the termenology langange (words).
If a kid never had the chance to take phonics when was little because he had speech problems. He becomes a musician someday. If a person had trouble reading words, do you think he would have the same trouble reading (intreperting) music?
There has to be a connection between them both because reading music is just like reading a foreign languge or the newspaper. What do you guys think? If anybody ever done the same study please give me as much as information as you can please! Thank you!
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July 24th, 2008 - 11:30
Kansieo.com
Firstly, spelling corrections. terminology, language, interpreting. Secondly, I am a voracious reader, good with words and the best speller in the staff room. However, I find difficulty reading music. I can name the notes on the stave, and tell u how long or short they are, but it’s the art of transferring that to an instrument that is tricky. It’s a totally different skill.
July 26th, 2008 - 06:43
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I don’t agree at all. I haven’t done any kind of study – but I’m a pianist who’s been playing for about 45 years, and who also reads a LOT. To me, reading music and reading words are TOTALLY different. The whole notion of “reading” music is so misleading; you don’t read it – you SEE it, and you know what its sound and its rhythm and and its very SHAPE are. Words come to life as physical things and objects and evoke the senses; music is its own universe, and transcends language.
July 29th, 2008 - 11:56
Kansieo.com
i can only answer this based on my own experiences. I am a very fluent reader of words, and I can pick up foreign languages pretty easily with practice. I however, believe this is my only intelligence, and I can assure you that I am not musical in the least.
I’ve heard that music is actually mathematical and requires a different sort of intelligence that is non-verbal. there are a lot of numerical quantities used, and fractions between intervals. I don’t see a correlation between verbal ability and musical ability.
July 30th, 2008 - 07:29
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They are similar, in that the reader is interpreting symbols on a page into sounds. However, words correspond to actual things and abstract ideas in the world, while music most often does not correspond to anything in the world, unless by literally imitating a sound. With language, one is constantly pulling up abstract representations of various things in one’s mind and gaining a meaning.