Does classical music actually stimulate the mind?!
Question: I think what you're refering to is the idea that listening to bach or mozart when you sleep will help your brain develop and later make you better at math and logical thinking. There is indeed a proven correlation between playing such music for young children and higher performance later in life, but it usually only has noticable effects if you start when the child has not finished developing such faculties as motor functions and language. Usually before age three is the time when a human child is most receptive to new patterns.
I assume that you're older than three, so for you it may be too late to start improving your cognative functions by listening to Bach at night, but that doesn't mean it isn't still stimulating, even in a medical sense. When you listen to a contrapuntal piece like a fugue or a passacaglia several times, each time you will notice new patterns in the way it plays out. Finding patterns and relations in music is something that will help your logic skills quite a bit, but you'll have to work for it. You have to listen consciously trying to identify patterns, rather than just playing music while you sleep.
Obviously, the best composer to listen to in order to identify patterns would be Bach (he wrote plenty of keyboard fugues of seemingly infinite complexity and intricacy), but you can't go wrong with almost any baroque composer who wrote contrapuntally. Later composers who wrote music that could be 'stimulating' include Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Notice that, towards the end of that list, the complexity of each composers' music becomes much more difficult to follow.
Answers: I think what you're refering to is the idea that listening to bach or mozart when you sleep will help your brain develop and later make you better at math and logical thinking. There is indeed a proven correlation between playing such music for young children and higher performance later in life, but it usually only has noticable effects if you start when the child has not finished developing such faculties as motor functions and language. Usually before age three is the time when a human child is most receptive to new patterns.
I assume that you're older than three, so for you it may be too late to start improving your cognative functions by listening to Bach at night, but that doesn't mean it isn't still stimulating, even in a medical sense. When you listen to a contrapuntal piece like a fugue or a passacaglia several times, each time you will notice new patterns in the way it plays out. Finding patterns and relations in music is something that will help your logic skills quite a bit, but you'll have to work for it. You have to listen consciously trying to identify patterns, rather than just playing music while you sleep.
Obviously, the best composer to listen to in order to identify patterns would be Bach (he wrote plenty of keyboard fugues of seemingly infinite complexity and intricacy), but you can't go wrong with almost any baroque composer who wrote contrapuntally. Later composers who wrote music that could be 'stimulating' include Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Notice that, towards the end of that list, the complexity of each composers' music becomes much more difficult to follow.
I think any music can stimulate the mind, not just classical
It relaxes you and make you feel nice!
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Yes, it is a proven fact. However, all music can have the same impact on people. It is all in how receptive you allow yourself to be.
It's the same as any stimulus. There is some amount of stimulation but based upon how to train yourself you can lessen or increase it. For me, its a huge stimulus because I love it. If I hear just one melody of something I love I get completely distracted. Others will merely notice its presence. As I said, it depends.
~Lisa
no its a big fat lie
Yes in the same way as looking at a great painting would or reading a Faulkner novel, watching a Shakespeare play. Any music does not stimulate the mind in the same way I don't think. I'm sure we have all had the experience of looking at a painting and being totally engulfed by it, or listening to a symphony and getting lost in it. All great art is suppose to do that while rock and pop music really isn't art (I like some rock music so I don't mean that in a deragatory manner).
It's called the Mozart Effect. Look it up on google or some other search engine - it's pretty interesting stuff. Classical music has pretty deep mathematical roots, even if composers don't think mathematics while composing it. It has to do with the overtone series and other such physics. So yes, it does - however to what degree depends on how you are listening to it. If you are listening to relax or just play it as background music it won't as much as if you are listening to it to figure out it's form or harmonic movement. Either way, it's a treat for you brain!