By the time most people have had two years of music lessons they are lucky if they have any spontaneous reactions to sound that they can call their own.
I watched the instruction for little kids at the Preparatory Division where I taught for many years turn into a kind of mill based on the assumption that children do not hear and that their brains need to be force-fed on pre-digested music.
This is completely off target in relation to just about any kind of music you can imagine.
The greatest authority comes from one's own feeling: "I like it!" or --even more authoritative-- "I don't like it!"
Anyone is capable of expressing such response provided it won't get them into a heap of trouble or embarrass the teacher or the parents.
Children have just as infallibly reliable taste when it comes to sounds as when it comes to vegetables.
