Breaking The Limitations Of Music - 2045 Words

Jordan Stock 1321201 December 15th 2015 Dr. Andrew Mitchell Music History 2B03 Breaking The Limitations In Music Music has always been seen as a way of entertainment. Throughout many eras musicians have kept their ways to their traditions. From instrumentation to the composition itself. Throughout the ages, music has mostly been a set in stone factor. But since the 20th century things have begun to change. Musicians are breaking away from the traditions of the past and reaching new areas of music. Technology is developing to creating new sounds and instruments can change how to be played and used. That musical styles have been developed and the compositions have altered with devices that can record and playback music in your own home†¦show more content†¦With his developments, the music world has heard a new sound. One of his major creations in music is in fact a wire recorder. This machine may not seem like much but it has been able record then playback music in your own home without the instruments themselves. This has truly become a great breakthrough instead of needing a musician in the household to keep smaller gatherings entertained. Now they can be entertained with only themselves. As said by brindle: â€Å"(One of the first electronic music compositions - John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) - had oscillator frequencies recorded on two 78 r.p.m. gramophone records, but normally such a system was too expensive and inflexible to be practicable.) It took a world war to produce what was almost the right instrument - the wire recorder - which was later replaced by the tape recorder, so manipulated, made permanent, or discarded, with incredible ease and at negligible cost. Once the tape recorder was perfected (about 1950), and its potentialities fully realized, other electronic sound equipment (either already existing or suitably modified) could be assembled to form the first electronic music studio† (99, Brindle). This development of the Wire recorder has lead to such great historical developments. From the wire recorder lead to the tape recorder and soon music was able to be taken anywhere anyone wished it to be. The development of the wire recorder was originally made by John Cage