The history of music before the twentieth century revolved around musicians and their instrument makers. Events likely to have a significant effect on this particular period of time seemed consistent. Well-tempered tuning was perfected, and soon after J.S. Bach rewrote the musical book with his groundbreaking composition, The Well-Tempered Clavier. The creation of the pianoforte fostered Beethoven's playing and writing and opened up a new powerful responsiveness. Autonomy and self-determination in music could be taken for granted, for music's fate seemed to depend, mainly, on the collective body of musicians practicing and perfecting their craft.
Half a century ago, the overwhelming choice was to buy and listen to whole albums. Today iTunes, the largest music store in the country, sells individual tracks that listeners can mix and mash in personal audio collages. I listen to a lot more mixes than albums, and even when I listen to albums, I find the songs through mixes. The impact on the music …show more content…
It is unreasonable to claim that the printed score represents the musical sounds. The score usually gives no indication of how the audio engineer should manipulate his/her variables. The Impact of Technology on the Musical by Jonathan D. Kramer Experience Written - April 15, 1997.
There is something sweet about the pleasant surprise of catching a song you love without having ordered it to play. So we often choose to outsource control over music's narrative to a machine. For decades, that machine was called "the radio." Increasingly, our radios are our computers. Every bit of technology forwards the relentless personalization of the music experience. We still cherish the choice to be surprised. Mainstream airplay may still be the best guarantee of a successful record, but new technologies, financial consolidation and shifting demographics keep wreaking havoc on the broadcast
Half a century ago, the overwhelming choice was to buy and listen to whole albums. Today iTunes, the largest music store in the country, sells individual tracks that listeners can mix and mash in personal audio collages. I listen to a lot more mixes than albums, and even when I listen to albums, I find the songs through mixes. The impact on the music …show more content…
It is unreasonable to claim that the printed score represents the musical sounds. The score usually gives no indication of how the audio engineer should manipulate his/her variables. The Impact of Technology on the Musical by Jonathan D. Kramer Experience Written - April 15, 1997.
There is something sweet about the pleasant surprise of catching a song you love without having ordered it to play. So we often choose to outsource control over music's narrative to a machine. For decades, that machine was called "the radio." Increasingly, our radios are our computers. Every bit of technology forwards the relentless personalization of the music experience. We still cherish the choice to be surprised. Mainstream airplay may still be the best guarantee of a successful record, but new technologies, financial consolidation and shifting demographics keep wreaking havoc on the broadcast