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Post by claudhopper on Oct 2, 2012 1:58:48 GMT
I came across this the other day
Although I'm not usually a classical music buff I have enjoyed some if it's in the context of a film. But anyway I liked this. Then it struck me, maybe I like this because it provides an extra channel of stimulation and so I don't get distracted.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2012 5:16:07 GMT
Nah, it's just coz Bach is good I started watching the pretty colours, then got bored and just lay back and enjoyed the music. Bach and Mozart were very mathematical musicians, using repeating patterns that build in complexity - there have been several theories around whether they stimulate IQ (Baby Einstein), or more specifically, spatio-temporal reasoning (the Mozart Effect). I think we ADHDers like them because our brain hooks into the pattern being delivered aurally and explores it as it is being unfolded to us - same way a lot of us enjoy computer programming. It's hugely stimulating to track the theme within a fugue, and hear it twist and unfurl and then burst into complexity - like aural fireworks. Equally, though, I'd expect some of the high emotion of later, more romantic composers to appeal to ADHDers, too - like Kachaturian's 'Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia' (for those of you old enough to remember, the theme music from the 'Onedin Line') or Vaughan Williams' 'Lark Rising'. To me, those pieces are pure, soaring emotion, and I don't have to think about them; just feel them. Highbrow folk can get very scornful of 'pop' classics, but there's a reason why some pieces of classical music are popular - they're good!
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