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Beautiful music initially offered soft and unobtrusive instrumental selections on a very structured schedule with limited commercial interruptions. It often functioned as a free background music service for stores, with commercial breaks consisting only of announcements aimed at shoppers already in the stores.
The illumination experiment was conducted from 1924 to 1927. The purpose was to determine the effect of light variations on worker productivity. The experiment ran in two rooms: the experiment room, in which workers went about their workday under various light levels; and the control room, in which workers did their tasks under normal conditions.
Occasionally also known as mood music and concert music, light music is often grouped with the easy listening genre. [3] Light music was popular in the United Kingdom, the United States and in continental Europe , and many compositions in the genre remain familiar through their use as themes in film, radio and television series.
Sirius XM Spa blends ambient and new age instrumental music on channel XM 68. Echoes, a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto featuring a soundscape of ambient, spacemusic, electronica, new acoustic and new music directions – founded in 1989 and syndicated on 130 radio stations in the US.
Chill-out (shortened as chill; also typeset as chillout or chill out) is a loosely defined form of popular music characterized by slow tempos and relaxed moods. [1] [2] The definition of "chill-out music" has evolved throughout the decades, and generally refers to anything that might be identified as a modern type of easy listening.
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Downtempo (or downbeat) [4] is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. [5] Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, [6] the style may be played in relaxation clubs or as "warm-up or cool-down" music during a DJ set. [5]
A report commissioned in 2012 by the London music organisation Sound Connections, working in partnership with UK Music, the UK government's Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the UK's Music Industries Association found access to a rehearsal space is an integral part of the career development of young musicians and music ensembles.