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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Having done two years (out of three - it's a long story) of a mathematics
>degree at Cambridge - wherein lurk some people who are seriously good at
>hard sums - my observation was that most mathematicians - or 'prentice ones
>anyway - were interested, often to the point of obsession, in any two and
>often all three of music, chess and bridge.
I wonder here. If you look how many of the great composers who had chess
and mathematics as interest we have that Philidor and Schoenberg. I can't
think of any other.
>...the Mozaetr Effect has been at least partially debunked, because it
>was probably measuring the wrong thing. if it was measuring IQ, it was
>*definitely* measuring the wrong thing, but that's another story.
I am pretty sure Musicallity has not much with IQ to do. I have met
excellent drummers who were even more stupid than I am. Mozarts IQ
is estimated to ca 150 by MENSA in London, who use to dabble with that.
Several composers had most probably higher IQ although not considered such
great composers. Philidor again as example. And so we have that prof who
claimed that many would have Mozarts skill if they just had been training
so mcuh from early age. But thats also another story. *sigh*
Andreas von Doebeln
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