Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction Katz Mark
Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction Katz Mark Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital…
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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction Katz Mark
Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices.This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music--new or old, electronic or not--as technologies worthy of investigation. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like.
The modern piano, for example, is a marvel of keys, hammers, strings, pedals, dampers, and jacks; just the sound-producing mechanism, or action, on All musical instruments can be considered technologies.