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The best music books of 2017
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- Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Maintaining a healthy bookshelf is as important as keeping your records in good order, and 2017 has been a particularly fruitful year for new and updated publications dealing directly with the science, art and culture of recorded sound.
Le plaisir (de la musique) croît avec l’usage (de la danse), selon une étude
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- Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Une étude du Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau, la musique et le son (BRAMS) conclut que danser au rythme de la musique, plutôt qu’écouter celle-ci sans bouger, accroît le plaisir qu’on retire de cette activité.
The etiquette box: The culture of classical music needs redress
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
It's time for classical music presenters to think outside the box.
Orchestra Playing 'The Rite of Spring' Without a Conductor
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
A work like that needs a skilled conductor to hold everything together, a fact that makes the orchestra Les Dissonances' recent performance all the more impressive.
Hide And Seek
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
For a while, hidden tracks were everywhere, especially during the CD era. But thanks to streaming music, there’s nowhere to put them. Is that good or bad?
Le Sultanat d'Oman, nouveau paradis pour l'opéra
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Depuis quelques années, les pays du monde arabe, et plus spécialement de la péninsule arabique, ont inauguré des salles d'opéra.
When Did We Start Cheering For Music Encores?
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
When you’re at a concert, classical or otherwise, you might feel that an encore is a given — even if the music was OK at best.
The last thing you'll ever hear: what is the world's best deathbed music?
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Why is there so little music for the dying? Maybe we’re shy of these fragile moments, feeling they’re too intimate to intrude upon with any extraneous sounds.
Now computers are writing perfectly acceptable pop songs
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
"Ugh," my dad used to grunt when I switched on Radio 1 . "This music sounds like it was written by a computer".
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