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Music and Sound Culture
Musical composition, performance, and its cultural context.
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- How did Cage use the I Ching to compose music?
- How did Debussy's operatic adaptation of Pelléas et Mélisande help spread Maeterlinck's reputation beyond literary circles?
- How did Theodorakis's musical setting help Axion Esti spread under the military dictatorship?
- How did Verdi's La Traviata compare to Mozart and to monotonous tones in prolonging survival?
- What did researchers find when they played opera to transplanted mouse hearts compared to silence?
- What happens during a performance of John Cage's 4'33"?
- What mechanisms did the researchers propose, and decline to fully claim, for why music might affect cardiac tissue?
- Why did Cage believe ceding control to chance was preferable to imposing his own taste?
- Why did the researchers partner with the Muzak corporation specifically for this study?