MUSICAL ABILITY

Bases of it Inherited by Nearly Everyone - Difference
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  • Chris Aruffo
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  • Windows XP/2000/98/Me/NT
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Bases of it Inherited by Nearly Everyone - Difference in Ability Due More to Training Than to Heredity - Means for Bringing Latent Ability Into Expression It is generally supposed that musicians are born, not made. A Modern student of heredity, for example, writes of musical ability: "This quality is one that develops so early in the most marked cases that its innateness cannot be questioned. A Bach, matured at 22; a Beethoven, publishing his compositions at 13 and a Mendelssohn at 15; a Mozart, composing at 5 years, are the product of a peculiar protoplasm of whose tenacious qualities we get some notion when we learn that the Bach family comprised twenty eminent musicians and two-score others less eminent." Following out this line of attack, let us look a little further for evidence that musical ability is innate. Of the Bach family I shall not speak, for its History is well-known: it presents an amount of musical genius unrivaled in history. But if we examine the ancestry of other great musicians, including some of those mentioned by the writer just quoted, we find little to indicate that their preeminent musical ability was due to any extraordinary Combination of heredity.


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