The French were far in advance of other countries in what is now the worldwide industry of early music research.
The other day the Journal published a fascinating story by Sumathi Reddy about music and exercise, and new research that suggests an optimal type of music for working out.
Market research company Music Programming Ltd (MPL) said 87% of its respondents who downloaded music admitted they bought albums after hearing tracks through the internet.
It meant nothing to me, but Mr John was adamant that his years of research showed the music was having a measurable effect, making the brain more efficient, its connections faster.
The Oram "Oramics" Synthesiser (sic) was built by Daphne Oram in 1957, a year before she co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to research and develop electronic music.
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In 2007, Duran teamed up with singer Andy Palacio to produce the successful Watina album, and took more than 10 years to research women's music in the region and put together the Garifuna Women's Project.
While many visit for leisure, students have used the resource to research topics ranging from music composition to the effects of texting while driving (using an Xbox 360 racing title and steering wheel peripheral, of course).
Apple, the computer and music company, has already done the research for me.
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The Gamelan Project is part of a growing body of research into the effects of music on the brain.
As the Entrepreneurs Challenge progresses in coming weeks, the YellTimbre group plans to perform some consumer research to see what other music lovers are looking for in a social music site, including talking to people waiting in line for concerts around the city, Stock said.
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But in a world where the UN predicts that by 2010, one in five people will be over 60, and failing memory is likely to become an important challenge for society, more rigorous research into the link between music and memory is much needed, says the team.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has unveiled a new music service that allows song sharing.
Researchers used videos and music pretested for their effects in prior research to induce two states of relaxation in 670 study participants.
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Conducting research on the revenue effects of illegal music consumption requires detailed dataon the quantities of both legal and illegal music consumed by individuals.
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He is founder of The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a foundation dedicated to research on brain functions and the Experience Music Project a music museum in Seattle and the Paul G.
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And she has used them in her own research on the racial desegregation of classical music performance, searching concert programs from the 1940s and '50s to find African-American soloists, the repertoire they were hired to perform and the white musicians they played alongside.
However the international music industry body the IFPI was highly critical of the research.
As has been widely rumored, Research In Motion is taking a stab at the music business.
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Among the many examples of what shear touch could do, the research duo has raised the possibility of skipping through music by pushing left and right, or scrolling more slowly through your favorite website with a forceful dragging motion.
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"There's a silence that falls upon the room as the kids watch him play, " said Tom Chau, vice president for research at Holland Bloorview, and who developed the Virtual Music Instrument.
If everything goes to plan, MusicNet could allow the music industry to move forward at last, says Eric Scheirer of Forrester Research.
YouTube offers a virtually exhaustive jukebox and recent research from the US suggested that more teenagers now listen to music through YouTube than iTunes, CDs or the radio.
"It has focused on its other lines, such as handsets, but given attention and resources, it could take a larger share of the music player market, " says Susan Kevorkian, a director of consumer market research at IDC.
She says this research is ever more critical because many schools facing budget shortfalls are cutting music programmes.
Around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally, according to a recent survey from Entertainment Media Research, a consultancy (though the number of users offering illegal files has also grown, to 8.6m compared with 6.2m a year ago).
It seems that coffee houses, underground music scenes and elaborate piercings are as much a part of technological development as universities and research centers.
The traditional format of a classical-music concert turns off the iPod generation, says Alan Brown, principal of arts-research firm Wolf Brown, which is studying alternative approaches for the New World Symphony.
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The AirPlay Audio System by Acoustic Research is better than traditional docking and other wireless devices because you can control your music from your Apple iOS device, giving you freedom as a full-function User Interface (UI) remote.
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One effect of the frenzy has been more money for research, which has helped to open up a more detailed discussion on the relationship between music, the brain and brain development.
Though U.S. sales of portable music devices increased 11% between 2006 and 2007 and 9% between 2007 and 2008, Jupiter Research predicts that growth will plateau in 2009 and begin decreasing in 2011.
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