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Contemporary classical music listening is mostly sedentary and silent, with no spontaneous outburst or cheering from the audience. Has it always been like this? In this video Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen presents a historical overview of the development of the classical music concert tradition.

In this video, Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen continues the historical overview of music and movement, starting at the jazz age and moving through the swing, rock, and disco periods before getting to today¡¯s music scene.

Music scenes developed quickly in the 20th century, and many large changes came about. The most radical change was probably that music now could be experienced without any performers present. The 20th century was the first century of recorded music.

In this article we will explore some of the topics from the previous video in more detail.

How can you capture motion out in the field? Kristian Nymoen is demonstrating a mobile motion capture system.

Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Kristian Nymoen demonstrate an infrared marker-based motion capture system.

Congratulations! You have now reached the end of week 1. We hope that you have enjoyed the course so far, and we are really looking forward to continue this moving musical journey together with you in the next five weeks.

This week we will look at some of the basic psychological principles related to music and movement. You will also learn about some of the terminology we use and we will start to explore different research methods used.

This week you will learn more about the importance of multimodality in human perception in the theory track.

This week you will learn about the concepts of pulse and entrainment in the theory track. The terminology track will focus on the motion of perceiver's, people experiencing music.

This week we will focus on the concept of groove in the theory track, and get to know concepts like "offbeat", "upbeat", "downbeat".

In this final week you will in the theory track learn about bodily metaphors in our experience with music. You will also learn how these affect our experience of emotional content in music. In the methods track we will take a closer look at biosensors. There is no terminology track in this week. Remember to use the dictionary.

The structure of Music Moves is based on three "tracks". We have just been through the first part of the theory track, and will here start the terminology track.