Music and Technology
Music has witnessed tremendous technological advances in the twentieth
century.
*1877 Phonograph invented
*1896 Flat disc recordings
* 1898 Recording on steel piano wire
*1920 AM radio
*1924 Microphones,
electrical amplifiers
*1928 The Jazz Singer --talking picture with music
*1930s BBC television service
*1930 First solid body electric guitar
*1935 Plastic film tapes
*1947 Tape recordings used in radio broadcasting
*1950's Computer-based music has its start at the University of Illinois
*1950 FM radio
*1957 Computer generated musical score
*1957 Computer generated sounds
*1957 Stereophonic recordings
*1958 Tape cartridges/cassettes
*1960 Quadraphonic sound
*1964-65 Moog synthesizer
*1965 Eight track cassette tapes
*1975-78 Early digital recording
*1980 Compact discs
*1983 Musical Instrumental Digital Interface (MIDI)
*1990's Computer music publishing
the
norm rather than the exception
