[Theory] Do Pokémon Like/Understand Music?

[Absolitetion]

Do Pok?mon Like/Understand Music?

A question I wonder is if Pok?mon are capable of liking and understanding music.

Well, I believe Episode 23 of the SM anime says enough about the first one.
But I wonder if Pok?mon are able to grasp an understanding in music theory.

Can they somehow get things as decibel, frequency/hertz, or maybe how melodies can be made, among things.
...
We have Pok?mon like Meloetta and Jigglypuff who have a musical touch, but I was wondering more about Pok?mon who have little relation to sound.

And what kind of music would certain kind of Pok?mon like?
Would they like loud or soft music? Complex or simplicity?

 

[Damien.aspiring.fandev]

Well... the enjoyment and understanding of music varies from individual
to individual, and the influence a music casts could vary from one to an
other just like in reality, not to mention that a same soundtrack can be
interpreted in different ways.
Something tells me that pok?mon might not have too much of a taste for
a rap genre, since it's mostly based on assonances and rhymes(I think...),
but again we don't exactly know how full the pok?mon's understanding of
human speech is...
They istantly react if they're tasked to use a certain move(this being across every continuity),
yet there's some instances of the anime in which some talking won't help (erm...
honestly, I can only remember when Ash hugged a rhyhorn on Pinkan Island and
said rhyhorn didn't react well, but rhyhorns don't seem to be too developed) and
lapras and lucario have, accordingly to the dex, a full understanding of human speech.
I don't generally trust the dex, but a lucario can see auras and probably figure out
what their associate is saying, not to mention that one in particular could use telepathic
communication. As for lapras they can learn a few psychic abilities and, accordingly
to the anime, also use telepathy.
As for "understanding" things as decibel and frequency, maybe some species somehow
have a perception of such measures even if they don't exactly know those concepts.

For the composition of melodies, I know as much as you(or maybe even less),
with the jigglypuff from the anime(whom appeared in Yellow and re-appeared
in FR&LG) and meloetta.
The sound effects for sing, grass whistle and perish song might suggest that those
capable of learning such moves do, indeed follow a composition, but that's not certain...

One specific case I'd like to mention is the ukulele-equipped pichu from
Pok?mon Ranger : Guardian signs. I just took a close listen to their pok?-assist,
at the beginning the chords might seem a bit random, but then a short track
takes shape.(click here)

 

[colours]

This is kind of a really broad question that I feel like depends on too many variables to definitively say for sure whether Pokemon understand music in the lyrical sense, or just understand the melodies in music. Although I have no actual evidence to support this myself, I'm still willing to hazard a pretty good guess that a majority of Pokemon that have about as much intelligence as your average human are able to understand therefore be able to enjoy music. As far as what kind... well, just like there isn't one kind of music that's appealing to humans, I don't think there's one particular genre of music that's appealing to all Pokemon out there.