Should we add some lutenisms?
Gaultier Effect?
"Child blabbers euphoniously enough, but makes no sense"
Kapsberger Effect:
"Child cannot complete a sentence"
Baron Effect:
"Child is fairly eloquent, but never says anything worth paying attention
to"
RT
> A new report now says that the Mozart effect is a fraud (via Terry Teachout).
> For you hip urban professionals: no, playing Mozart for your designer baby
> will not improve his IQ or help him get into that exclusive pre-school. He'll
> just have to be admitted into Harvard some other way.
>
> Of course, we're all better off for listening to Mozart purely for the
> pleasure of it. However, one wonders that if playing Mozart sonatas for little
> Hillary or Jason could boost their intelligence, what would happen if other
> composers were played in their developmental time?
>
> Liszt effect: Child speaks rapidly and extravagantly, but never really says
> anything important.
>
> Raff effect: Child becomes a bore.
>
> Bruckner effect: Child speaks very slowly and repeats himself frequently.
> Gains reputation for profundity.
>
> Wagner effect: Child becomes a megalomaniac. May eventually marry his sister.
>
> Mahler effect: Child continually screams - at great length and volume - that
> he's dying.
>
> Schoenberg effect: Child never repeats a word until he's used all the other
> words in his vocabulary. Sometimes talks backwards. Eventually, people stop
> listening to him. Child blames them for their inability to understand him.
>
> Babbitt effect: Child gibbers nonsense all the time. Eventually, people stop
> listening to him. Child doesn't care because all his playmate! s think he's
> cool.
>
> Postscript from Cori Ellison:
>
> Yes! And what about:
>
> Schumann Effect - Child elopes with piano teacher's daughter, tries to stretch
> his fingers, and goes crazy.
>
> Rossini Effect - Child's speech keeps getting faster, higher, louder, and more
> florid, until he suddenly retires at an early age.
>
> Philip Glass Effect - Child refuses to develop themes, keeps repeating himself
> endlessly, and becomes inexplicably popular with drug users.
>
>
>
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