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Flashcards by Roxanne V Springman, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Roxanne V Springman
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| a quote by Milton Babbitt | "The new limitations are the human ones of perception" |
| Hydraulis | water organ |
| pipe organ | can be traced all the way back to third century BCE |
| Lascaux Caves of France | contain wall paintings that suggest animations |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | referred to the pipe organ as the "King of Instruments" |
| DAW | DIgital Audio Workstation |
| Manuals | keyboards |
| Player Piano (Pianola) | a piano that captured and played live music on a rotating roll of paper |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MIDI Editor Window | Also known as the "Piano Roll" |
| Phonograph | Introduced by Thomas Edison in 1877, it recorded any sound wave onto tinfoil sheet cylinders |
| Gramophone | by the 1920's, this device kicked the phonograph to the curb by providing superior audio fidelity, plus vinyls were more easily stamped and pressed |
| Why was the gramophone more popular than the phonograph? | its utilization of vinyls (flat disks)/Long Plays (LPs) were better suited to mass production and outperformed the phonograph in sales and market share |
| Music Streaming | Thaddeus Cahill introduced the idea in 1896, when he filed a patent for the Telharmonium. |
| Telharmonium | an invention that embodied the idea of transmitting music over telephone wires from a single location across the globe |
| Tone Wheels | the analogy of stops of a pipe organ |
| Theremin and Ondes Martenot | paired as twin instruments because they share identical methods of sound generation |
| Theremin | invented by Russian immigrant LEon Theremin in 1928, this device utilized a person's two hands manipulating electric signals from two antennae |
| Two antennae of the Theremin | One controlled Frequency, the other Amplitude |
| Ondes Martinot | Introduced in 1927, produces pitches from an 88-key keyboard. A sliding ring controlled by the right hand determines the pitch relative to the note of the keyboard it was lined up with. |
| Clara Rockmore | well known for playing the Theremin |
| Multitracking (Sound-on-Sound) | A recording technique by Les Paul that stacked multiple sounds together |
| Mellotron | in 1963, this instrument became the world's first true Sampler Keyboard |
| Sine Wave Oscillator | an electronic chip that oscillates sound pressures |
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