Tuesday, May 3, 2011

How to Influence the Musical Abilities of the Child Before its Birth?

Many parents worried about the idea, as in the mother during pregnancy affect the level and nature of the musical talent of the child.

More often with questions about this appeal to music teachers after the regular publications on the subject in the general press. Those who perceive such publications uncritically, are encouraged by and want to get a unique recommendations of what and how they should take during pregnancy. Others who perceive the newspaper articles on these topics as curiosity, to share their doubts, and even tend to mock the gullible. How do I answer both?

Yes, the science experiments in this area were not staged. But life itself for centuries has experimented, and we can assess and take into account the results of natural experiments. In the memoirs and biographies of famous people should pay attention to what is known about the lifestyle of their mothers during pregnancy and how this relates to the subsequent manifestations of musical ability? As a rule, we find in the biographies of the following: the musically talented people to their birth mother actively playing music or was in a live setting playing.

In the period preceding the appearance of a child born to his musical future has indisputable value acoustic component of the life of the mother. Formation of a hearing aid and the nervous system of the fruit ripening occurs in view of sound environmental parameters. For example, if a pregnant woman for a long time in a noisy shop, the probability to have a deaf child (a consequence of forming a protective reaction of the organism to the increased volume of the background).

The same effect can be triggered and time-consuming pastime of the future mother in discos, where like a deafening sound and abused power of the speakers. Conversely, wanting to build a future child's ability to subtle auditory reactions, should take care not only about how to protect ripening fruit from the screen and all sorts of sonic overload, but the predominance in the ambient sound environment, music, rich in timbre and zvukovysotnom against .

The strength of this factor is known to many biographies of gifted musicians. The most striking example - the prehistory of birth of the brilliant composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). His mother was a concert pianist, and almost to the birth did not stop his speeches (and, hence, the home of rehearsals, which requires daily hours of play on the piano). Where is all this time was Scriabin? About sounding piano. Subsequently, he identify and develop not just a musical inclination, but a special sensitivity and passion is to timbre of the piano as a kind of his native element, a special delicacy of hearing and sensitivity of fingers, capable of making the touch of a keyboard to extract from the instrument sound unheard nuances ...

Piano compositions often than any other, could lead him to an ecstatic state. Naturally, that Scriabin was famous as a composer first and foremost a piano, his contemporaries appreciated it a phenomenal pianist-singer (which, unfortunately, remains for us only the legend, since recording the early twentieth century could not yet capture all qualities of sound).

"In his game - recalls LY Nelidova-Thebes - was indescribable charm, peculiar to him, his charming manner to extract special conjuring sounds fascinating. He, like patting lightly touched the keys, but from his magic fingers sparkled sparks and lightning ... Sounds produced by its light as butterfly wings, fingers, seemed to be some kind of ethereal, astral. Apparently, the particular talents of Scriabin directly dependent on the particular conditions in the first months of forming his nerve and hearing aids.

But the case of Scriabin - just one long series of known facts. Sustained long-standing tradition of domestic music-making in the noble families of Russia provided a consistently high level of musical and general development of the representatives of this class, the appearance in it of professional musicians worldwide. Almost all major Russian composers of the XIX century (from Glinka to Rachmaninov) - natives of this medium. In the nobility of Russia in the set formed musical dynasty. Of course, not all children born in families where the parents played music, they became hereditary professional musicians. Such units. But the rest became hereditary cultural people.

Musical literacy and domestic music-making in the cultural circles have been so familiar for granted for life, that it did not attach special significance. For example, the composer Nikolai Myaskovsky, who was the son of a military engineer, wrote in his autobiography that grew up "in the conditions and environment, far away, in fact, alien to art," and did not recall the times of early childhood "musical impressions than climbing under the piano when to play it .... "

So, the first piece of advice to parents: as soon as possible to take care of organizing a special acoustic treatment during pregnancy of the mother. Preference should be given "live" sounding music. Mother-to-do well to participate visit the philharmonic concerts and operas. In less appropriate listening through the electrical equipment, as in this case affects part frequency range. Technique, even the best quality and expensive, yet does not give those options sound, which would coincide with the parameters of "live" sound. How not to feed the children artificially synthesized food, just to be avoided and synthesized sounds: you can not guarantee that replacing the natural sound of acoustic instruments with electronic counterparts will be physiologically acceptable to the child's body.

Ideal case - when the mother-alone plays music (singing, playing a musical instrument, participating in choir, ensemble, orchestra). However, you should avoid playing poorly configured (fake-sounding) and technically faulty instruments, the game which is accompanied by extraneous overtones (a rattle, squeak, etc.). Some precautions are required for playing music instruments such as cello, guitar, domra, balalaika, Bandura, harp, since their resonators (decks) are in close proximity to the fetus. Sound power should be in these cases is quite moderate, not to expose the fruit of sound overload.

There is wise saying that different sources is credited with the Hungarian composer Zoltan code, then Moscow pianist Heinrich Neuhaus, then someone else from famous teachers: the musical education of the child begins nine months before the birth of his mother. Paradoxical at first glance, the assertion is based on true fact of life. And if at all times, musically gifted children are more likely born in a family of musicians, it seems, not only the biological heredity play a role (sensitivity to the music of genetically inherent in every human being), but it is an acoustic environment in utero formation of the fruit . And that, unlike genes, all in our power.

Normal musical abilities are showing healthy children, regardless of the acoustic conditions of intrauterine development. And here is outstanding, phenomenal abilities are more likely to arise in cases where the fetal life of the fetus was held in an atmosphere of live music making. For those who want to have a musical and talented child, the conclusion is clear and has long been formulated in the Russian proverb "Trust in God, and those who help themselves!".

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