Music History

By Starzstruck08
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    History of music

  • Telharmonium

    Telharmonium
    The telharmonium keyboard was touch-sensitive, the console allowed the sounds to be mixed and filtered to emulate various brass, woodwind, and string instruments heard in orchestra

  • Wurlizter

    Wurlizter
    The Wurlizter is said to be a one man orchestra. It is installed in theater for silent movies.

  • John Cage

    John Cage
    John Cage was one of the most important and influential composers. His work had an effect on classical musical, jazz, rock, dance and other performance art.

  • Edgard Varèse

    Edgard Varèse
    He was known as the “father of electronic music,” Varèse was one of the first composers to anticipate the development of electronic music as a way of making new musical experiences.

  • Theremin

    Theremin
    The theremin lacked a traditional keyboard, fret, or finger holes. The pitch was controlled by moving the hand back and forth in relation to the pitch antenna.

  • Ondes Martenot

    Ondes Martenot
    The Ondes was very close to the Theremin in a way and also sounded very similar to the Theremin. But the Ondes allowed more control over the timbre of the sound.

  • Magnetic tape

    Magnetic tape
    The Magnetic tape had been invented for recording sound in Germany but it was mostly kept a secret. It was only at the end of the war that the magnetic tape was brought out of Europe.

  • Hammond Organ

    Hammond Organ
    The Hammond Organ was similar to the telharmonium but it was much smaller. It was supposed to replace organs in churches but was also used in Jazz and gospel music. In the end it was rejected since it sounded to electronic.

  • Musique Concrète

    Musique Concrète
    Musique Concrète is using sound recording devices, natural, environmental, industrial and human sounds to make music.

  • RCA Mark II

    RCA Mark II
    The RCA Mark II was the first programmable electronic synthesizer and the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

  • Buchla Synthesizer

    Buchla Synthesizer
    It was a lot like the Moog but it didn't use a keyboared. The Buchla never reached the same popularity with the mainstream musician as the Moog.

  • Moog Synthesizer

    Moog Synthesizer
    The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by Robert Moog.

  • Mark Applebaum

    Mark Applebaum
    Mark is a composer and professor of music composition and theory at Stanford University. He uses similar techniques that John cage uses.

  • MIDI

    1980 is when Midi was developed, it is used everywhere like cellphones, computers, video games, etc. https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/MIDI-Musical-Instrument-Digital-Interface#:~:text=Musical%20Instrument%20Digital%20Interface%20(MIDI,from%20its%20own%20sound%20library.

  • laptop orchestra

    laptop orchestra
    A laptop orchestra is a chamber music ensemble consisting primarily of laptops. The first laptop orchestra was founded by Dan Trueman and Perry Cook.