Do you think languges go well with music?
because this is what my piano teacher said she studies french and she's brilliant at french.
i'm also quite good at German and i think spanish.
it's one of my best subjects at school.
so what do you think.

I think it goes well a little bit only.
As we need to learn those musical terms, we should be familiar with most of them.
Your piano teacher and you have the advantages in reading new terms or footnotes of a piece.

In some cases, yes - certainly Italian because you get used to the sound of the words through music which helps if you later start to learn
I think music helps you to listen more carefully to things as well

Music, Physics, Maths and Languages ---> Top four A-Level subjects if you want to be a musician, à mon avis naturellement!

I think the reason that languages (especially french, not so much german) are helped with music is because music flows and so does a language like french. Once you have the rhythm for a language, you can do it fine. So if you are musical, you can link the rhythms and you find it so much easier. I must admit having taken up music, I have been able to take in far more information in a much shorter space of time than ever before. Music helps with everything, relaxation, memory, rhythm, what more could you ask for?

Maths and physics????

I thoughtit was more of the 'arty' side

No, apparently mathematicians do make good musicians....

Perhaps the whole thing is just down to intelligence though: children that get the opportunity to learn musical instruments and stick at it are usually intelligent dedicated children with supportive parents.

As for the question about languages, I suppose it helps if you're a singer and helps with the terms: maybe even reading music is like reading a different language. I always think it's good that we can read German, French, Italian or music from any country and it's written the same so we don't have a language barrier to contend with (excluding countries which don't use conventional western notation that is). I'm not sure if it does help but it certainly won't do any harm...

QUOTE (freda_bloogs @ Oct 26 2004, 04:41 AM)

Music, Physics, Maths and Languages ---> Top four A-Level subjects if you want to be a musician, à mon avis naturellement!

I can say I am very good at Maths, quite good at physics, but only know Chinese, English and Putonghua quite well. I don't learn other languages...
I neglect music for saying whether it is good or not.

well i did german AS level and erm failed it

QUOTE (Alvin @ Oct 26 2004, 01:13 PM)

but only know Chinese, English and Putonghua quite well. I don't learn other languages...

u know chinese?me too!it's cool!and i can speak putonghua as well!
where are u from?

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No, apparently mathematicians do make good musicians...

It was quite widely accepted that music and maths often went together when I was at school - though not in my case !


Although music is one of the arts, it does have a mathematical side too.
Much of the theoretical part is based on numbers - think of chord structure, figured bass, form, circle of fives .... if you are numerate much of the theory may be easier to grasp. But whether mathematicians necessarily make good performers may be open to debate.

I do think there's something in the music and languages thing though. Both need an accurate ear after all; if you can pick up sounds, memorise sound patterns and reproduce them it's helpful in both languages and music.

Maggie

My piano teacher used to say that if you were good at music, you'd either be really good at maths or really bad... thankfully I think I'm one of the good ones!

Before we started our AS music course the teachers said that good maths skills were important especially for the harmony bits. I don't really know quite how that works but I kind of see what they might have meant.

As for languages, I only know French, German and a bit of Chinese so I don't really know. I suppose Italian might be fairly useful as most music used to use it.

QUOTE (milkykitten @ Oct 26 2004, 10:02 PM)

QUOTE (Alvin @ Oct 26 2004, 01:13 PM) but only know Chinese, English and Putonghua quite well. I don't learn other languages... u know chinese?me too!it's cool!and i can speak putonghua as well! where are u from?

I am from Hong Kong, perhaps I should say Cantonese, English and Putonghua.

Hiya,

I love music.

I speak English, some German, a bit of French, a little Italian and a sprinkling of Norwegian.

However, my A-level subjects are Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Music. I took Biology for AS level.

Music goes with anything.

I apply lots of maths to music because I can see lots of patterns in music that I wouldn't have been able to without maths and it just makes things a lot easier. I come up with my own little formulas for things...after many sleepless nights, I'm that sad. Like working out how many flats/sharps there are in a key without actually having to know them (should I forget in an exam).

QUOTE (Alvin @ Oct 26 2004, 02:55 PM)

I am from Hong Kong, perhaps I should say Cantonese, English and Putonghua.

i can speak cantonese too,but of cuz not as good as u do!
always watch cantonese drama since i was small...

well,i wish i can speak Italian,French,German...etc
haha,so that i dont have to memorize for my theory foreign terms!~