MooPig Music Theory Department :: Who do you Listen to?

SAT Scores Correlations to Music Genres
Re-Directed Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Oct 27, 2014  |  Bryan TX


Smart people listen to Radiohead and dumb people listen to Beyoncé, according to study | Consequence of Sound: "How does a person’s intelligence relate to the type of music they listen to? For the last several years, a software application writer by the name of Virgil Griffith has charted musical tastes based on the average SAT scores of various college institutions. For example, students attending the California Institute of Technology have an average SAT score of 1520. By looking at Facebook to determine the most popular (or — “liked”) band of students at Cal Tech, Griffith was able to conclude that Radiohead really truly is music for smart people. A highly scientific study, I know."
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CONCLUSION
MooPig Music Department does not listen to Beethoven.


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http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/smart-people-listen-to-radiohead-and-dumb-people-listen-to-beyonce-according-to-new-study/
http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/index.php

BBC News - Greg Ham, Men At Work flute player, 'found dead'

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | April 20, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] Police are investigating the death of Men at Work's Greg Ham, whose body was discovered on Thursday at his home in Melbourne, Australia. Officials have reportedly established a crime scene as they examine "unexplained issues" relating to the musician's death.
BBC News - Greg Ham, Men At Work flute player, 'found dead':

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EXCERPT  |  " ... Men At Work flautist Greg Ham has been found dead at his Melbourne home.

The 58-year-old will be remembered for playing the famous flute riff from the band's biggest hit, Down Under.

Two friends found the body. They became concerned about Ham's well-being having not heard from him for some time.

"Because of the early stages of our investigation, we're not prepared to go into the exact details of what has occurred,' Detective Senior Sergeant Shane O'Connell told reporters.

Ham joined Men At Work in 1979 playing flute, harmonica, saxophone and keyboards.

The band achieved international fame in the 1980s with the 1983 hit Down Under, while their album, Business As Usual, topped the Australian, US and British charts. (BBC. 20 April 2012) ... "

" ... In recent years, Men at Work were accused of stealing Down Under's central flute riff from the well-known children's song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree. Despite its reputation as a traditional, the song was only written in 1932. In 2010, a judge ordered the band to pay royalties to the campfire tune's music publishers; this ruling was upheld in its final appeal last October. (Sean Michaels. 20 April 2012. ) ..."

And that's our pirated News story for the week!!!!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17767264
http://my.opera.com/d4rkn1ght/blog/2012/04/20/greg-ham-1953-2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/men-at-work-lose-appeal

MooPig Site Review :: "This Application promotes Melody?? -- YIKES!"

MUSIC  |   [PAGE]
An app that jams with you.
Retrieved by Good Old Boy Pat Darnell

A good session player is hard to find, but ujam is always ready to rock. The Web app doubles as a studio band and a recording studio. It analyzes a melody and then produces sophisticated harmonies, bass lines, drum tracks, horn parts, and more.

Before ujam’s AI can lay down accompaniment, it must figure out which notes the user is singing or playing. Once it recognizes them, the algorithm searches for chords to match the tune, using a mix of statistical techniques and hardwired musical rules. The stats are part of the software’s AI and can generate myriad chord progressions. The rules-based module then uses its knowledge of Western musical tropes to narrow the chord options to a single selection.

The service is still in alpha, but it has attracted 2,500 testers who want to use the AI to explore their musical creativity—and they have the recordings to prove it. As ujam gathers more data on users’ preferences and musical tastes, programmers feed this info back into the system, improving its on-the-fly performance. In this respect at least, ujam is like a human: It gets better with practice.
—Jon Stokes, WIRED [SOURCE]

MooPig's BillBoard Section: "ObamaCare" Got any Spare Change?

Hey, Fella, are you Sick?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Dexter

How do they do this?

What they might be saying is that Barry O is between a rock and a tombstone. Here is the allusion to the melody used:

On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States, killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean, in his song "American Pie."[wkpd]

We retrieved this from Atlas Shrugs, after seeing it in today's post. In context of Democratic Party liaison politics for Health Care Reform, Hillary got put away, now Barry is stuck on a highway in Nebraska on a defective Harley. Head on over there where Atlas Shrugs, for some great political jargon-ing, from Pamela Geller and Friends.

It seems just only about nine months ago, Barry O and his bride Michelle could have sold Whole Life to an Actuary. With out all the facts in, and with no possible way to read the ten thousand page summary of legislation presented to the Congress... we at MooPig will just lay down and chew our cud, until the cows come home.
Doctors will soon have to start working for tips, and splitting them with their nursing staff. Oh, and don't forget to tip your cow.

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