<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:09 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Now I'm REALLY Happy! :)<br></blockquote><div><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default">(from the link) Most systematic work has found young babies have clear preferences for consonance over dissonance and <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05721.x/full">can remember the tempo and timbre</a> of music they’ve heard before. Babies prefer the female voice but <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163638306000324">like it even more</a> when it takes on the qualities of “motherese” (the high-energy singsong tone we all naturally adopt when talking to babies)</div> <br>------------------<br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">An interesting sidelight to this is that babies (and who knows how much older people have to be before this preference is lost, if ever) do not like the low voice of Daddy and other men. I scares them easily. Makes sense: their mother's voice is the one they heard for nine months and Daddy's voice was much further away.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Now take a look at teen idol singers: high voices, even falsetto, from guys. Few if any basses (since I don't listen to pop I can't say about today's voices on CD or radio or MTV, whatever). Low voices that come to mind: Johnny Cash, Tennessee Ernie Ford, not exactly teen idols. Even when they have a low voice they sing at the top of their range.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Did you ever hear a villain in a movie with a high voice? And when war, conflict of any kind come on the movie screen you hear huge bass instruments booming out music in a minor key (darker to most ears).<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">You have to wonder just how much of our musical preference is innate or possibly due to the sounds fetuses heard in the womb. More research is to come,says the article. I'd play some operatic basses to fetuses and see what happens!<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">bill w<br></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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After one final round of tweaks from Heap, we went for a different<br>
kind of test. We assembled about 20 of the babies in one room and<br>
played them the song all together. If you ever met an excited toddler<br>
or young baby, you will know that two and a half minutes is a long<br>
time to hold the attention of even one child, let alone two dozen.<br>
When The Happy Song played we were met by a sea of entranced little<br>
faces. This final bit wasn’t the most scientific as tests go but it<br>
definitely convinced me that we had a hit on our hands.<br>
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BillK<br>
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