{"id":434,"date":"2008-06-14T04:27:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T09:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-06-14T04:27:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T09:27:40","slug":"elements-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/434","title":{"rendered":"Elements of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2008\/06\/name_that_tune_in_three_elemen_1.html\">Name that tune in three elements<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Best song of the 80s? Gold by Spandau Ballet. But it seems that the frilly-collared Spandau boys were far from original in their lyrical choice. According to a survey undertaken by Santiago Alvarez, in the department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, the most popular elements referred to in music are, from the top; silver, gold, tin and oxygen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What surprises me isn&#8217;t that someone did this.  No, what surprises me is that the survey appears in a chemistry journal and it&#8217;s paywalled.  There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphagalileo.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&amp;releaseid=529969\">press release<\/a> that mentions some of the songs.<\/p>\n<p>But . . . <em>Gold<\/em> is the best song of the 80&#8217;s?  File that under &#8216;Things that make you go buuhhhhh!&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name that tune in three elements Best song of the 80s? Gold by Spandau Ballet. But it seems that the frilly-collared Spandau boys were far from original in their lyrical choice. According to a survey undertaken by Santiago Alvarez, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}