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Concert silence rules should be case-by-case not dogmatic
Rules forbidding noise or applause between movements should not be dogmatic—some pieces, like the end of the Emperor Concerto's first movement, are built to provoke applause—yet there is good reason audiences are quiet because the dynamic extremes (the whispery opening of Beethoven's Ninth or the subliminal E-flat opening of the Ring) require silence, so the standard should be case-by-case across a thousand-year tradition of music with different social functions.
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