Music and my baby? Is she particularly attuned to music and what might it mean?

My 20 month old daughter LOVES music... not the typical Barney-esque type music that most toddlers love, but complex adult music, like classical, polka, jazz and alternative. She couldn't honestly care less about "kiddie" music... she actually ignores it, but if a classical tune she likes comes on, she will stop whatever she is doing to listen.

She "sings" along with songs - no words naturally yet, but she "la-la-la"s in time and in tune. Happy, upbeat music makes her dance and the slow sad sounding ones make her little lip tremble and she'll start to cry w/ real tears. We have to be really careful with slow Christmas carols, because most of them tear her up.

Does this mean that she might be musically inclined? My husband played the viola all through middle and high school, and I played the piano some when I was younger. Both of us really love music.

Do any of you out there have children that are really sensitive to music, and as they got older, what did it evolve into?

Music and my baby? Is she particularly attuned to music and what might it mean?

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Don't take this the wrong way, but most kids her age are like that. It depends more on what they're exposed to. Exposing her to different kinds of music is certainly beneficial, though - keep it up!

My husband is a very talented musician (over 20 years experience playing guitar, drums, piano, and singing - professionally, too), and our son definitely picked quite a bit of it up from him. I'm not sure if it's nature or nurture, though. At 8 months old, he could clap and move to music right to the beat; he has perfect rhythm. He sings very well, and showed a strong interest in playing music before age 2. He's already a talented drummer, most of which he learned just by listening and imitating what he heard. He's now interested in taking up guitar as well, and has shown some interest in piano. Like your daughter, he was very sensitive to music. He used to tear up whenever he heard sad music, and would tell me, "No music, it's sad," from a very young age.

He may continue to want to play as he gets older, or he may decide it's not for him. All I care about is that he loves and appreciates music.

By all means, keep encouraging her, but don't read too much into it. Just let her develop as she will without pushing her. Whether she becomes a concert pianist or is completely tone deaf, what matters is that she loves music.

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My 20 mos. old son is the same way. He loves music. Not the kid stuff either. Who knows, maybe your child will play an instrument or sing or write music some day.
Are son is like that but more on the bluegrass banjo,fiddle side. Since he's 3 now and we started looking into Suzuki. You could google for an association in your area, if just to learn more about it.
Lovely to hear she enjoys it so much.

You can kill all that love for music right now of course, if you force her to have violin lessons.

I hope you won't. It just sounds lovely. Let it free to see how it develops.
That sounds great. I'd say to keep exposing her to a variety of good music. Don't bother with kiddie stuff, it's nauseating if even tolerable.