Erstellt von Roxanne V Springman
vor etwa 7 Jahre
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Frage | Antworten |
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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