does classical music makes you intelligent? why?

Answer 1

Stereotypes. Stereotypes. Stereotypes.

Classical music is not a magical smart pill. And not all intellectuals like or listen to classical music. You don't have to be a bookworm to like or appreciate it.

I think the thing with classical music is that it is the "base" of all western music. It certainly is with the physical aspects of it. Saxophones in concerts and jazz bands. Guitars are common too. Pianos are everywhere.

For example, Jazz music can be said to have influence from western music. It combined with folk music to create interesting rhythms. Scat singing (those random words "do wop,razzmatazz") eventually found its way to rap music of today.

You can easily tell from the sheet music. All western -style with notes and bars and scales. Do re mi is everywhere.

I think that listening to classical music opens the door to all other forms of music, it opens your mind to more things, than just listening to the end products of western music evolution, such as rock and rap.

It's always good to expand your palate with a good base. or bass.

Answer 2

Certainly it doesn't. However, it will increase your concentration, which in turn, if you're doing some homework, will increase the degree of the input going into your brain. I use this method in the school and find the music very non-intrusive during studies.

And this statement: Only intelligent people listen to classical music.

That's demeaning, I should say. I had a friend who certainly wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and he fell silent when I put on Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata while driving home. Whenever he had the chance he would press the Back button to listen to that piece again and again. I can't say I converted him to an avid classical listener, but I was certain that night he knew there were other genre of music other than pop and head-banging metal. (And I respect all music genre.)

You don't have to be a snob or intelligent to listen to good music. It's just like enjoying food, minus the guilt.

Answer 3

I think this is a fallacy. And I disagree with those who say you must first be "intelligent" to listen to classical music.

Listening to classical music, and appreciating and enjoying it, can certainly change the way you listen to music, the way you think about music. You can listen on many different levels, and I think this is one thing that sets it apart from the vast spectrum of the commercial music that is out there. But it is not necessary to know all the theory involved, to know all about the formal characteristics of a symphony or a sonata in order to appreciate its beauty and depth. If you do learn some of those things as a result, on an acedemic or even an intuitional level, then it surely deepens your understanding and enjoyment, but that doesn't mean you've become more intelligent. It just means that you have undergone a learning experience -- which is a good thing, yes?

This concept that only "intelligent people listen to classical music" or "only intelligent people can comprehend classical music" is elitest garbage, and is responsible in large part for the reverse snobbery that gives classical music such a bad name and small listening audience. All humans have an innate intelligence which is sufficient for appreciating classical music on whatever level they are comfortable with.

It's for everybody.

Answer 4

Does it? I don't feel intelligent after years of classical music training

Answer 5

No, I don't think it does. But, and dare I say this, only those who are more intelligent to begin with listen to classical music. I'm not saying that anybody who doesn't listen is not intelligent, but that it does take a certain amount of intelligence to begin to comprehend classical music.

Answer 6

No, it does not make you more intelligent. If that were the case we could use it to upgrade people. However, if you examine the classical music audience, I think you would find an IQ above average. It simply attracts more intelligent people. So the question is really backwards.

Answer 7

Classical music makes you more sensitive and more open to beautiful things. intelligence is more native and it grows up when it's trained. music doesn't exercise your intelligence, but your soul, yes..

Answer 8

Listening to classical music while eating fish and reading everything you can get your hands on will!

Answer 9

I don't think it makes you intelligent.. But I do think it makes you more open to music. In my opinion it makes you understand music more than you would understand it if you only listen to modern crap.

Answer 10

To understan classical music you already have to be intelligent.