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Even before babies have acquired language, they exhibit a marked capacity for reacting to music, babies are able detect differences in musical tones and changes in both the tempo and the rhythm of the music. They are also able to recognize a melody even when it is played in a different key. Babies as young as two months show preference for consonant musical sounds (harmony) over discordant sounds. Two weeks before birth, fetuses recognise the difference between the theme music of (a popular) TV show, heard daily by their mothers for weeks, and a novel song - Scientific America