My friend Jenny recently lent me a book called ’This Is Your Brain On Music’ by Daniel Levitan. Whilst I haven’t got round to finishing it, the bits I’ve read are great, putting some science behind what I love.
BBC Lab’s How Musical Are You? does something similar, asking you a series of questions, some with audio, for around half an hour. At the end you get a bunch of results as to how keen you are on music, how daring with it you get and if you’re likely to cry listening to an Anthony and The Johnsons song or not.
For some reason this great tool doesn’t have any share functionality which will disappoint the wealth of internet users out there that love nothing more than to show off about their musical tastes and how great their knowledge is. Luckily my ego knows how to make screenshots of webpages, so here are my results:
Enthusiasm for music – 90%
Music perception – 83%
Emotional connection – 76%
Social creativity – 40%
Musical curiosity – 49%
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