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Top 5 Most Controversial Audience Behaviors
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- Thursday, 27 March 2014
For some concertgoers, the concert hall a last bastion of decorum, but for others it's an anachronism needing to loosen up its strict customs.
Can a Song’s Lyrics Predict Its Commercial Success?
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- Tuesday, 25 March 2014
New textual analysis of Billboard Hot 100 hits shows that certain themes are more likely to be No. 1.
Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting
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- Tuesday, 25 March 2014
In the new paradigm, artists generate coverage by their clothes, hook-ups, and run-ins with the law. What happened to the music?
Music Takes Center Stage In Oscar-Nominated Documentaries
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- Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Three documentaries up for Academy Awards Sunday place musicians front and center — and trace the profound impact that music-making has on the trajectories of their lives.
Audiences Identify Top Orchestras by Appearance More Than Sound
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- Monday, 17 March 2014
To enrich the visual appeal of symphony concerts, orchestras have experimented with a range of tactics: adding video screens to concert halls that show live close-ups of the conductor and soloist; ditching tuxedos in favor of more modern garb; or projecting video effects and silent films during a performance.
Why I joined a choir
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- Monday, 17 March 2014
What is it about singing in harmony with other humans that changes the way we feel and think?
Musical anhedonia: why some people just don't like music
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- Wednesday, 12 March 2014
New research reveals that some people are incapable of having an emotional response to music.
"J'écoute de la musique au bureau": 7 thèmes pour être plus efficace
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- Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Nous sommes nombreux à écouter de la musique au bureau pour différentes raisons : se décontracter, se divertir, se concentrer, s'isoler, s'aérer.
Why I Invited Listeners to Snap Photos During a Concert
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- Tuesday, 04 March 2014
Whip out your cell phone and start photographing at a sporting event and nobody will notice – other fans are probably snapping photos anyway. But try that at a symphony concert and you'll be glared at – unless you're at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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