Questions tagged [music]
Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses."
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Are the modern surround-sound audio codecs audibly distinguishable from older ones? [closed]
Dolby TrueHD is a lossless audio codec for surround sound systems that is intended to be a successor to Dolby AC-3, a lossy audio-codec.
Likewise, its competitor, DTS-HD Master Audio is a lossless ...
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Does reggaeton generate greater brain activity than classical music?
A 2021 Exploring Your Mind article claims:
A group of neurosurgeons conducted a study that demonstrated intense brain activation when participants listened to reggaeton. In fact, it even surpassed ...
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Is listening to lossy audio more tiring than lossless audio?
Multiple posts on Reddit (Ear fatigue and Audio quality, another comment) claim that it is more tiring to listen to music in a lossy format. The same claim is even repeated on the Wikipedia page for ...
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Was the music used in the "You wouldn't steal a car" advertisements pirated?
I was browsing Reddit and I saw this post that garnered 51 thousand votes claiming that the music used in the "You wouldn't steal a car" advertisements was, itself, stolen.
According to the ...
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Does playing slower music in gyms reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections?
I read (mirror 1, mirror 2) that South Korean authorites have introduced some rules to enforce slower (in terms of BPM) music in gyms to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections:
Music with more than ...
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Did Feynman write 'Orange Juice' as a response to Pauling's advisory on Vitamin C?
Apparently, according to the Nobel Prize's official Facebook, Richard Feynman composed a song on the congas known as 'orange juice' after fellow Nobel-laureate Linus Pauling wrote to him claiming that ...
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Are the songs on "Rote Lieder (Die Besten politischen Lieder aus der DDR)" from the German Democratic Republic?
Today, a friend sent me a link to the cheery song "Lied vom Volkspolizist" by Blascore on the compilation "Rote Lieder (Die Besten politischen Lieder aus der DDR)", but listening to the song lyrics ("...
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Does streaming an album 27 times consume as much energy as manufacturing a CD?
According to an article on TheConversation:
So which is the greener option? It depends on many things, including how many times you listen to your music. If you only listen to a track a couple of ...
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Does listening to classical music "Improve Cognitive Function"?
https://www.dumblittleman.com/kickstart-your-brain-with-the-mozart/
The article says:
Several studies have shown cognitive improvements in those who listened to classical music prior to performing ...
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Is the Airtel music ad the most streamed song and most downloaded ringtone?
This image was forwarded to me on Whatsapp
The Airtel Music Ad composed by A R Rahman was the Most Streamed Song in the World in the Year 2005-2009. Also it is the Most Downloaded Ringtone in the ...
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Did The Beatles write "Norwegian Wood" after hearing Bob Dylan's "4th Time Around" as claimed by producer Al Kooper?
It's widely believed that the Bob Dylan song "4th Time Around" was inspired by "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles. However, music producer Al Kooper claims that John Lennon heard live renditions of "4th ...
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Do vinyl records account for 3.6% of global music sales?
Sony is restarting production of vinyl records after 30 years. That's pretty surprising. Even more surprising to me though is one of the reasons provided:
in 2016, a format nearly a century old ...
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Is this chicken playing America the Beautiful on the keyboard?
This video from America's Got Talent purports to show a chicken playing the song America the Beautiful on a keyboard.
I am skeptical. For all I know, it could be hitting random keys, and a software ...
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Did Leopold Godowsky perform the entire 19th Century piano repertoire? [closed]
In 1897–98 the Polish-American pianist and composer Leopold Godowsky is reported to have performed the entire 19th century piano repertoire in a series of only 8 concerts. This is hardly imaginable or ...
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Did over 1000 people in Haiti report seeing Tupac a week after his death? [duplicate]
I stumbled upon this website http://thadrill.com/2013/03/1000-people-called-haiti-police-saying-they-saw-2pac-shukur/ that claimed over a 1000 people in Haiti reported to the police that they had seen ...
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