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Chapter 1: A Brief History of Music Technology
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- 1a quote by Milton Babbitt"The new limitations are the human ones of perception"
- 2Hydrauliswater organ
- 3pipe organcan be traced all the way back to third century BCE
- 4Lascaux Caves of Francecontain wall paintings that suggest animations
- 5Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartreferred to the pipe organ as the "King of Instruments"
- 6DAWDIgital Audio Workstation
- 7Manualskeyboards
- 8Player Piano (Pianola)a piano that captured and played live music on a rotating roll of paper
- 9MIDIMusical Instrument Digital Interface
- 10MIDI Editor WindowAlso known as the "Piano Roll"
- 11PhonographIntroduced by Thomas Edison in 1877, it recorded any sound wave onto tinfoil sheet cylinders
- 12Gramophoneby the 1920's, this device kicked the phonograph to the curb by providing superior audio fidelity, plus vinyls were more easily stamped and pressed
- 13Why 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
- 14Music StreamingThaddeus Cahill introduced the idea in 1896, when he filed a patent for the Telharmonium.
- 15Telharmoniuman invention that embodied the idea of transmitting music over telephone wires from a single location across the globe
- 16Tone Wheelsthe analogy of stops of a pipe organ
- 17Theremin and Ondes Martenotpaired as twin instruments because they share identical methods of sound generation
- 18Theremininvented by Russian immigrant LEon Theremin in 1928, this device utilized a person's two hands manipulating electric signals from two antennae
- 19Two antennae of the ThereminOne controlled Frequency, the other Amplitude
- 20Ondes MartinotIntroduced 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.
- 21Clara Rockmorewell known for playing the Theremin
- 22Multitracking (Sound-on-Sound)A recording technique by Les Paul that stacked multiple sounds together
- 23Mellotronin 1963, this instrument became the world's first true Sampler Keyboard
- 24Sine Wave Oscillatoran electronic chip that oscillates sound pressures
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