Alex Aparicio
MEDIA
12/20/16
Professor Aggimenti
Advancement in Music
Music has become a big role in the lifestyle people live today. Everywhere you go music
is someway making itself present. For years now the way we listen to music has changed making
it more suitable and comfortable for us to listen to. Back in the day people would have to carry
boom boxes over their shoulders to hear their favorite songs. Now we have the privilege to have
it in the palms of our hands.
It started with American inventor Thomas Edison who was the first person to invent a
device to record and play music on. It was made by him in 1877 and he called it the phonograph.
The sound quality was really bad and each recording lasted for only one play …show more content…
Additionally the
Graphophones initially deployed foot treadles to rotate the recordings, then wind-up clockwork
drive mechanisms, and finally migrated to electric motors, instead of the manual crank that was
used on Edison's phonograph
Next up came the gramophone. It was the first device to stop recording on cylinders and
start recording on flat disks or records. Because there was no electricity you had to wind it up to
use it.It was invented by Emile Berliner and the first records used by the gramophone were made
of glass. A spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record and the record
was rotated on the gramophone. The "arm" of the gramophone had a needle that read the grooves
in the record by vibration and the vibrations made the sound.Over time records evolved and
stopped being made out of glass. Instead they were made out of plastic and could easily be mass
produced. But they were easily broken as the vinyl plastic used wasn't very strong.
In the 1970's cassette tapes were widely used to record and listen to music. They …show more content…
Sony’s first portable CD player, the
Discman D-50, was introduced in November 1984. At first, the D-50 was not profitable but as
the product gained popularity, it soon became profitable, and Sony began to create a portable CD
market. The Discman range was later re-named to CD Walkman.
In 2001 something came onto the market that changed the way we listen to music. The
iPod. It was the first listening device where you could upload songs digitally, storing 100's in one
go.Though the iPod was released in 2001, its price and Mac-only compatibility caused sales to be
relatively slow until 2004. The iPod touch was released in 2007 and was the first music device to
have Wi-Fi so users could connect to the iTunes Store and download tunes and listen to them
straight away.When the iPod touch debuted in 2007, it marked a major change for the entire iPod
lineup. For the first time, there was an iPod that was more like the iPhone than the iPod nano or
iPod Video that had come before it. There was good reason that the iPod touch was referred to as
"an iPhone without the phone." Not only was the iPod touch similar to the iPhone, it was a
MEDIA
12/20/16
Professor Aggimenti
Advancement in Music
Music has become a big role in the lifestyle people live today. Everywhere you go music
is someway making itself present. For years now the way we listen to music has changed making
it more suitable and comfortable for us to listen to. Back in the day people would have to carry
boom boxes over their shoulders to hear their favorite songs. Now we have the privilege to have
it in the palms of our hands.
It started with American inventor Thomas Edison who was the first person to invent a
device to record and play music on. It was made by him in 1877 and he called it the phonograph.
The sound quality was really bad and each recording lasted for only one play …show more content…
Additionally the
Graphophones initially deployed foot treadles to rotate the recordings, then wind-up clockwork
drive mechanisms, and finally migrated to electric motors, instead of the manual crank that was
used on Edison's phonograph
Next up came the gramophone. It was the first device to stop recording on cylinders and
start recording on flat disks or records. Because there was no electricity you had to wind it up to
use it.It was invented by Emile Berliner and the first records used by the gramophone were made
of glass. A spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record and the record
was rotated on the gramophone. The "arm" of the gramophone had a needle that read the grooves
in the record by vibration and the vibrations made the sound.Over time records evolved and
stopped being made out of glass. Instead they were made out of plastic and could easily be mass
produced. But they were easily broken as the vinyl plastic used wasn't very strong.
In the 1970's cassette tapes were widely used to record and listen to music. They …show more content…
Sony’s first portable CD player, the
Discman D-50, was introduced in November 1984. At first, the D-50 was not profitable but as
the product gained popularity, it soon became profitable, and Sony began to create a portable CD
market. The Discman range was later re-named to CD Walkman.
In 2001 something came onto the market that changed the way we listen to music. The
iPod. It was the first listening device where you could upload songs digitally, storing 100's in one
go.Though the iPod was released in 2001, its price and Mac-only compatibility caused sales to be
relatively slow until 2004. The iPod touch was released in 2007 and was the first music device to
have Wi-Fi so users could connect to the iTunes Store and download tunes and listen to them
straight away.When the iPod touch debuted in 2007, it marked a major change for the entire iPod
lineup. For the first time, there was an iPod that was more like the iPhone than the iPod nano or
iPod Video that had come before it. There was good reason that the iPod touch was referred to as
"an iPhone without the phone." Not only was the iPod touch similar to the iPhone, it was a