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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #49113
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Pop Music
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Flip through Rolling Stone, and you'll read about a lot of "revolutions" in popular music: Rock'n'roll and punk, disco and new wave. But for Matthias Mauch—an engineer at Queen Mary University of London—the qualitative analysis of musical evolution—the music critic's take—left him wondering: "Is there some way in which we can take this kind of pub conversation, and make it more quantifiable?" So he and his colleagues analyzed fragments from more than 17,000 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, from 1960 to 2010. They processed the audio to extract information about timbral and harmonic qualities—tagging the files for attributes like "orchestra/harmonic" or "calm/quiet/mellow." Then they used those tags—which they compare to a musical "fossil record"—to tease out trends about musical evolution.
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