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March 13, 2014 05:12 pm GMT
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If a Song Doesn't Have a Chorus, You're Probably not Listening
It is not hard to estrange the idea of the chorus. Why should songs have some parts that are repeated and others that are not? Imagine other works of art in which a quarter or half of the work is repeated: a movie that shows the same 10-minute sequence every 20 minutes, or a book that repeats every other chapter
Yet, in popular music, the chorus seems necessary. It is, in many cases, the point of the song.
And now, in a wonderful essay on Aeon, Elizabeth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas, argues that repetition is the point of music. The chorus is merely our culture's embodiment of a deeper human desire to play it again. Read more...
More about Music, Semantic, Songs, Brain, and SoundsOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/MBtODfuPg0I/
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