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Hi, Kevin. It would be great if you can address just a few items in
the Wikipedia page:<br>
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This sentence is asking for a citation:<br>
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average rock song during most of the decade was around −18 dBFS.<sup
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It would require assessing the meaning of the word "average" and the
method of averaging and the statistical assessment and the name of
the database. The most exact citation I can give you is going to
require a variation on the above. <br>
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You can cite Rudy Ortner's "The Evolution of Loud", masters thesis.
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German title page: <br>
Je lauter desto bumm! – The Evolution of Loud<br>
Untersuchung zur Evolution der Lautheit und Klangcharakteristik in
60 Jahren westlicher Popularmusik.<br>
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Master-These<br>
Eingereicht am:<br>
Department für Kunst- und Bildwissenschaften<br>
Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Musik<br>
Musikmanagement (MA)<br>
an der Donau-Universität Krems<br>
Betreuer:<br>
Univ.-Ass. Mag.art. Mag.phil. Dr.phil. Werner Goebl<br>
Institut für Wiener Klangstil<br>
Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien<br>
Von:<br>
Rudolf Matthias Ortner<br>
9709932<br>
Abgabedatum:<br>
11. September 2012<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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or use as a secondary reference my graphs which use Ortner's data,
in Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science, Third Edition, Chapter
17. <br>
Ortner's database is of charting popular music from four major
charts from U.. <br>
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The median loudness in LUFS in the three year period in the middle
of the 1980 decade was -16.8 LUFS<br>
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See if you can live with that. That's the very best and most
accurate citation I can give you. If you want to create a median for
the entire decade I would have to consult Ortner.<br>
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