Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

There is no age appropriate music...

There is only exposure,education, ears training...

When a child i  was going to Catholic masses and Vespers and ceremonies, I even worked as a boy altar...

My mother and father  were singing  "Ave Maria Stella" as i was a baby, and i remind it clearly and i was 2 years old or 3 max, then  i listened to choral music at the Radio  before noon( very old french and english folk song or popular chorus songs).

Then when all my friend listened Cream and Beatles and Hendrix, i was listening ,Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Josquin Des Prez, Jakob Obrecht, Purcell Anthems, and Bach  etc...

Training ears biases when a baby will determine your music journey...

 It was so strong conditioning, i discovered Jazz  only at 35 years old...I decided it was not an inferior music style no more because i discovered music is done by musicians not written for singing by great past Masters...

Already in my twenties, i listen Indian sitar... It becomes after my  35 years a passion for Indian and Persian music especially .,..

Today i listen to many world musical cultures...

But the Choral music stay my all time favorite...

I like Armenian and Persian songs ...

Popular music has no real appeal to me save few poets exceptions (Dylan Cohen  Baez, Ferré, partly because i was a "hippie" against war in the 70  etc )

Alas! if i can wrote a book about Bruckner symphonies describing them in metaphors i had no talent for music at all ...I was discarded from the Choral of boys because of my unability to sing correctly...

I "see" music with my eyes and do not hear it a way a musician hear it...

In my next life i want to play piano as Ervin Nyiregyházi playing Liszt... Or as Sofronitsky playing my god Scriabin...

if not i did not come back here ...

@desktopguy + 1 - I'll go with the whole package - I'm a mindless, technicolor drone rat! You're probably right about the gray, though.... 

@audio-b-dog, I know all about Oliver Sachs. Actually have a copy of Musicophelia; this is a good reminder to read it. I’ve also heard his lectures. I first became acqainted with him via the neurology connection: he was a well-known researcher in migraine medicine (I’ve had a wicked/continual case of that for the past 15 years). His writing on that topic are fascinating, indeed.

The brain is a funny beast. Once it forms pleasure pathways (with music, sex, drugs, food--literally anything that can light up the pleasure center and pump those endorphins), it’s very hard to make it let go. And in the case of music, I don’t ever want that jones to stop.

Your musical background is pretty interesting. Can’t believe you saw Richie Valens! No doubt we share some "age appropriate" music tastes. I left out a lot in my post (such things as Jimmy Hendrix, Jeff Beck, countless jazz & classical performances).

@mahgister, I, too, was an alter boy and choir boy. My love of polyphony and liturgical music began with music in the church. I’ve been to Italy 3X and saw some stupendous churches and cathedrals there, as well as in the U.S. I have zero religiosity: all I want from religion are the buildings and the music. As for J.S. Bach, I could live on a diet of nothing but and die happy. I listen to his music ~12 hrs/day, every day.

@larsman, that’s a good plan. If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth over-doing!

@desktopguy ​​@mahgister 

I am a musical dunce when it comes to playing. My one claim to fame, however, is that I was chosen for senior chorus in 6th grade. I was a soprano (then). We sang "Inch Worm, Inch Worm, measuring the marigolds." 

I was raised in a secular household. We never went to services. I think that is why I was not biased against sacred music. I think Bach's Mass in B Minor comes straight from the heavens. Perhaps the best piece of music ever written. I had a chance to see it live in Disney Hall. We all sat down low because there were not enough people to fill the hall. Strange that so few people would want to hear such a beautiful piece of music.

"Ah, Happy Brave New World..."

Sounds like another version of the glass filled to mid-level......
Will Human music survive....?

Of course it will.  Talent will remain to introduce yet new variances and 'hooks' that tip that domino in your cortex and light up the rest of the cranium.

To believe otherwise, this soon, unleashes what you fear.

AI need's to learn and understand what Hope is...Why it's important that it never must be squelched in it's span with us.

Music is part and parcel to that Hope....
Deny? Die anyway....

Not so much into where 'serious music' has fronzen into amber...yes, wonderful.
I happen to be in This Era, error it may be.......looking at that jump off the edge.... ;)