Music and Technology

ContentsContentsContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology An A–Z of Music Technology through the Years Amplification Analog Synthesizers Artificial Intelligence Auto-Tune Boomboxes Bose, Amar G. and the Bose Corporation Brass Instruments Cassette Tapes Collaboration Software Compact Discs (CDs) Computer-Composed Music Computer-Generated Music Desktop and Laptop Computers Digital Audio Tape (DAT) Digital Recording Digital Synthesizers Distortion DJ-ing Dolby Noise Reduction Drum Machines Edison Phonograph Effects Pedals 8-Track Tapes Electric Guitars Electrical Recording Electronic Keyboard Instruments Electronic Tuners Electronic Wind Instruments (EWI) 45-rpm Records GarageBand Generative Music Gramophones and Victrolas Headphones Instructional Software Internet Radio iPads and Other Tablets iPods and Other Portable Digital Music Players iTunes Jukeboxes Karaoke Leslie Speaker Loops Loudspeakers Mechanical Organs Mellotrons Metronomes Microphones MIDI Mixing Boards Moog Synthesizers Motion Picture Soundtracks MP3s MTV and Music Videos Multi-Track Recording Music Boxes Music Notation Software Music Printing with Movable Type Musical Notation Muzak Ondes Martenots Orchestral String Instruments Organs PA Systems Pandora and the Music Genome Project Patches Pedal Steel Guitars Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Percussion Instruments Player Pianos Quadraphonic and Surround Sound Radio Reel-to-Reel Tape Resonator Guitars Reverb Sampling Satellite Radio Sequencers 78-rpm Records Sheet Music Smartphones Social Media Sony Walkman and Discman Stereophonic Sound Streaming Audio Services Tablature Tape Manipulation Theater Organs Theremins Transistor Radios Video Games Vinyl Albums Virtual Accompanists Virtual Studio Software Virtual Synthesizers Vocoders and Talk Boxes Wire Recording Woodwind Instruments Yamaha Disklavier Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer YouTube Glossary Bibliography Index