“The custom of showing one's pleasure at music by immediately following it with a noise, usually by clapping but sometimes also by the drumming of feet, is perhaps as old as the art of music itself.” - The Oxford Companion to Music, Alison Latham SOURCES: • Laws, Plato - http://bit.ly/2gUDXtK • Applause: A Rest Is Noise Special Report, Ross - http://bit.ly/2gUlddZ • Getting Together and Falling Apart: Applauding audiences, Brandl-Risi - http://bit.ly/2gUmlyf • Effects of applause magnitude and musical style on listeners’ evaluations of wind band performances, Springer et al - http://bit.ly/2gUZJh7 CC MUSIC: • Symphony No.2, Op.73, Brahms, #246961 - http://bit.ly/2gW3cfA • Aulos 'Agora' in A on the Black Sea, Anton Platonov - http://bit.ly/2gU6IqI • The Beau Ideal March, Sousa, #482436 - http://bit.ly/2gU8rwg • Erlkönig, D.328, Schubert, #186613 - http://bit.ly/2gTR7aA • Piano Sonata #15, Beethoven - http://bit.ly/2gUiUYh EPISODE IMAGE Arhythmia by neekoh.fi on flickr - http://bit.ly/2gUgGII Reasonably Sounds theme and act break music are by Will Stratton (http://willstratton.bandcamp.com), and visual design by Tida Tep (http://tidatep.com/) FIND RS AT • http://twitter.com/reasonablysnd • http://instagram.com/reasonablysnd You can support the show with a per-episode donation at http://patreon.com/reasonablysound Thanks to all the show’s current patrons, with an extra special double thanks to: Brandon, Joe Krushinsky, Jonny C, Camilla Greer, Keith Broni, Coral Kennelty-Cohen, J.S. Majer, Jack Britton, Andrew MacLarty, Mahlen Morris, Jesse Gamble, Tim, Hans Buetow, Clayton Grey, Nick Goertzen, Benjamin, Kathy Ahfid, Hector Suzanne, Adam Neely, Oscar Acton, Dale Jakes, Cole Sarar, Andrew Carlos, Dylan Neal, Chelsea Whyte, Royce Rackham, Anthony Kirkpatrick, Rachaul Paul, Ethan Hermer, Scott Fassett, Joachim, Tod Kurt, Elliott, John Cifuentes, Xander C, and Susan Rugnetta FIND MIKE AT • http://twitter.com/mikerugnetta • http://instagram.com/mikerugnetta