MU251T Study Guide - Final Guide: Audio Interchange File Format, Rca Mark Ii Sound Synthesizer, Electronic Musical Instrument
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Music is often define simply as organized sound. Amplify, analyze, manipulate, organize, transform, distort, record, reproduce, synthesize, atomize, commodify, transmit. 1863, hermann von helmholtz published on the sensations of tone as physiological basis for the. Early electrical music devices, the reis telephone (1861) and musical telegraph (1874) were offspring od the new field of telecommunications. First electronic music synthesizer was the massive telharmonium patented by thaddeus cahill in. Italian futurist luigi russolo published a book that encouraged the use of noise in music. Edgard varese was an experimental composer who anticipated the development of electronic musical instruments, spoke of the need fro the collaboration of inventors and musicians. First boom in electronic musical instrument development began in 1917 with the availability of the de forest vacuum tube. Electro mechanically instruments used electrical means to amplify and mody mechanically produced tones. Charles babbage difference engine mechanical computer.
