Argumentative Analysis Of Babies And Beethoven

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In my opinion, the study Babies And Beethoven: Infants Can Tell Happy Songs From Sad that demonstrates that from 5-month-old on, children can recognize an upbeat tune is astonishing. The babies ' reaction was from, "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. It seems that by 9 months, children can do the inverse and select the sad sound of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony from a pack of upbeat pieces. Brigham Young University psychology professor and study author Ross Flom feel that these musical tests offer another case of how children understand the world much sooner than they can talk. Babies perceive feelings and for them a song is the message. Because the researchers have given the challenge