How good is your Eurovision knowledge?

Ashley Burgoyne - From 18 - 22 May, the Netherlands will play host to the Eurovision Song Contest. You may still remember some of the songs that have triumphed in the competition over the years, but would you recognise other, less successful Eurovision entries? You can find out while helping the researchers from the Amsterdam Music Lab to investigate the shortand long-term memory elements involved in music cognition. Is there one sure-fire recipe for creating a hit piece of music? And what makes one song stick in the memory while another is forgotten? The UvA's Music Cognition Group researchers are using Eurovision songs from the past five years to investigate these questions. Ingredients. According to musicologist Ashley Burgoyne, there are four ingredients in a good musical recipe: 1. Repetition (patterns within chorus / melody); 2. Good melody recognition, even without accompaniment of instruments (a cappella); 3.