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  2. Music and emotion - Wikipedia

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    Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...

  3. Lyric setting - Wikipedia

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    Although the second and third beats are considered weak, they are actually eligible for stressed syllables if the beats are subdivided into eighth notes. In this instance, there is a contrast established between the strong and weak eighth notes. The unstressed syllables fall on the second eighth note of a quarter-note beat.

  4. Timeline of Billboard number-one dance songs - Wikipedia

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    Since then, the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart compiles songs primarily recorded by DJs or producers, with an emphasis on electronic-based production. Madonna is the most successful dance music artist of all time, with a total of 50 number ones on the Dance Club Songs chart and 33 number ones on the Dance Singles Sales chart.

  5. Syncopation - Wikipedia

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    In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur". [1]

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    2: two half-note (minim) beats per measure. Notated and executed like common time (4 4), except with the beat lengths doubled. Indicated by . This comes from a literal cut of the symbol of common time. Thus, a quarter note in cut time is only half a beat long, and a measure has only

  7. Theory of musical equilibration - Wikipedia

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    The theory of musical equilibration (in German: die strebetendenz-theorie or, literally, the tendency to strive theory) is a psychological theory that argues that music does not elicit emotion directly and that, instead, the listener "identifies with musically-encoded processes of will" and interprets them to produce an emotional effect. [1]

  8. Music and sleep - Wikipedia

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    The characteristics of music that have improved sleep quality in the music-sleep literature include slow tempo, small change of rhythm, and moderate pitch variation of melody. [16] The selection of music (self selected or researcher selected) does not appear to impact sleep quality.

  9. Pulse (music) - Wikipedia

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    Clear quarter note pulse in 4 4 at a tempo of =120 Play ⓘ.At =600 the pulse becomes a drone Play ⓘ, while at =30 the pulse becomes disconnected sounds Play ⓘ.. While ideal pulses are identical, when pulses are variously accented, this produces two- or three-pulse pulse groups such as strong–weak and strong–weak–weak [4] and any longer group may be broken into such groups of two and ...