“The custom of showing one's pleasure at music by immediately following it with a noise, usually by clapping but sometimes also by the drumming of feet, is perhaps as old as the art of music itself.” - The Oxford Companion to Music, Alison Latham

SOURCES: • Laws, Plato - http://bit.ly/2gUDXtK• Applause: A Rest Is Noise Special Report, Ross - http://bit.ly/2gUlddZ• Getting Together and Falling Apart: Applauding audiences, Brandl-Risi - http://bit.ly/2gUmlyf• Effects of applause magnitude and musical style on listeners’ evaluations of wind band performances, Springer et al - http://bit.ly/2gUZJh7

CC MUSIC:• Symphony No.2, Op.73, Brahms, #246961 - http://bit.ly/2gW3cfA• Aulos 'Agora' in A on the Black Sea, Anton Platonov - http://bit.ly/2gU6IqI• The Beau Ideal March, Sousa, #482436 - http://bit.ly/2gU8rwg• Erlkönig, D.328, Schubert, #186613 - http://bit.ly/2gTR7aA• Piano Sonata #15, Beethoven - http://bit.ly/2gUiUYh

EPISODE IMAGEArhythmia by neekoh.fi on flickr - http://bit.ly/2gUgGII

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