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history - Did Mozart improvise? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Yes, he did, prolifically. See for instance this article about a 2011 presentation by a Harvard Professor of Music, called Improvising Mozart. In Mozart's time, his reputation was based first on his skill in improvisation, second on his skill as a performing pianist, and only third on his compositions. Improvisation is still an important skill ...
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race - Was Mozart black? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a contemporary of Mozart's, also known as the"Black Mozart" – which would be a peculiar nickname if they were both black. You might also like to add other pictures of Mozart, his father and mother, clearly showing that none of them were black.
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Is listening to music while studying distracting?
The most famous study is talking about so called"The Mozart effect".. In 1993 Rauscher et al. made the surprising claim that, after listening to Mozart's sonata for two pianos (K448) for 10 minutes, normal subjects showed significantly better spatial reasoning skills than after periods of listening to relaxation instructions designed to lower blood pressure or silence.
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Does listening to classical music"Improve Cognitive Function"?
They compared the previously mentioned Mozart piece, a 'sadder' piece (Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor), and no music. The paper had the following results: Participants performed better on a test of spatial abilities after listening to a Mozart sonata than after sitting in silence. When a slow, “sad” musical excerpt by Albinoni was presented ...
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What is EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and does it work?
That 119 participant one is a pretty clunky experiment. It's like taking people who say they have never received piano lessons, guiding them once through the keys of a Mozart piece and then concluding that if it sounded bad then pianos cannot be used to play nice sounding Mozart music. If EFT has substance then it's plausible that it's ...
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musicians - Did Marilyn Manson kill a chicken on stage? - Skeptics ...
Marilyn Manson did not kill the chicken onstage."The chicken, which was requested on the band's rider (as a joke), was given to the band by the promoter of the Houston show prior to the Dallas date. She was not seriously harmed during the Dallas incident and is living on a farm outside of Dallas under the pseudonym"Foghorn".
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Have Bobby Fischer, Einstein, Hawking and Kasparov all had their IQs ...
In the 20ies scientists had tried to estimate the IQ of deceased personalities such as Mozart (1756-1791) and Goethe (1749-1832) by means of biographic data; thus they wanted to estimate Albert Einstein’s IQ, too. The value estimated for Einstein was between 160 and 180. But this rough estimation can not count as Einstein’s IQ!
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Was Kurt Cobain listening to R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts when he killed ...
Kumail Nanjiani on why he hates R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” The above article on the A.V. Club website makes the following claim: This might not be true, but the legend is that this is the song ...
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Ma... Mozart cosa suonava? - GamesVillage.it
11.790. Mozart sapeva suonare un po' di tutto in particolare il violino e il pianoforte. If you don’t know who I am, maybe your best course of action is to tread lightly. 21-04-2009, 00:42:16 #10.
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Does the nose stop smelling a scent after a few minutes?
It depends on how frequent (odor exposure [or sniffs] per minute) a smell is registered. Habituation can last from less than ten minutes up to at least 30 minutes (Chaudhury et al., 2010). As mentioned in the link, different parts of the olfactory system appear to be involved, but it is mainly explained through receptor activation on the cell ...
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