Ans 1) We
take the easy availability of music for granted.
Ans 2)
People use to hear an orchestral piece of music once or twice.
Ans 3) The
impact of the recording of music would change music itself forever.
Ans 4) Not
only the listener was impacted by the recording but 20th century
composers also took a liking to it.
Ans 5)
During that time, recording speech but not music was considered most important.
Ans 6)
Captain Bergerac was a real life writer.
Ans 7) Mary
had a little lamb in 1987 by Thomas Alva Edison.
Ans 8) In
the recording, the use of wrapped tinfoil was included in the diaphragm of the
phonograph
and the needle made the indents on the tinfoil which recorded the
sound given in the long tube.
Ans 9) The
needles which made low file recordings sometimes became rusted. In addition,
once the wrapped tinfoil was removed, it was useless.
Ans 10) The
use of wax cylinders came as an improvement in the 1880’s.
Ans 11) In
the 1890’s, America’s invention, the jukebox took it by storm.
Ans 12) The
choice of music (such as hymns, etc) in the posh classical music world turned
their noses up at the ability to record.
Ans 13) The
earliest surviving musical recording, epic oratorio in Israel, Egypt was made
in the Crystal Palace in London.
Ans 14) The
classical musicians were too slow to get on board straight away. Since the
records lasted for two minutes, the long music recordings could not be fit in
easily.
Ans 15) Gang
recordings are where the same songs are recorded into different cylinders.
Ans 16) Emil
Berlerner invented the Berlerner flat, rubber disk. Due to this, unlimited
copies could be made.
Ans 17) The
material, Shellac, replaced the rubber disks. They were made by crushed
Belasian beetles.
Ans 19)
Grand Opera was the genre of music that was celebrating its golden age at the
turn of the century.
Ans 20)
Enrico Caruso was the most famous singer in the world. He is from Naples, a
city in Italy. He began life in one of the poorest cities in Europe to a
luxurious lifestyle.
Ans 21) 10
records were cut that made gramophone history.
Ans 22)
Canio in Pagliacci was the world’s first million selling disc.
Ans 23) All
the classical artists dropped their objections to recording because they
realized that people would buy their records; making them rich in the process.
Ans 24)
Alessandro Moresschi was the last living castrato. His recordings represented
frightening performances.
Ans 25) Arrival
of portable record players. This meant that music which used to be played in a
concert hall is now being heard just about anywhere. Therefore, the gramophone
allowed music to lose its original context.
Ans 26) Capturing
the instrumental repertoire was difficult due to the crudeness of the recording
machinery.
Ans 27) The
recording done using an ancient gramophone has only the dominant or loud sounds
but the low, subtle sounds are not present because they cannot be picked up by
crude metal funnels of the instrument.
Ans 28)
·
The
musicians were bunched up together around the recording horn.
·
Constructed
a stroh violin which played loudly than a normal one.
·
Replaced
weedy strings with beefy, wind brass instruments.
Ans 29) Mozart’s
Overture: The Marriage of Figarro’s recording was placed in a gramophone where
the strings are replaced by a brass band.
Ans 30) The
impact of the electronic microphone was mostly noticed on popular music.
Ans 31) Sounds
which were recorded by the electric microphone didn’t require loud bellowing
into a funnel (part of the gramophone). This allowed singers to murmur
intimately at the mike.
Ans 32) The
power of the small, educated, relatively well-off audience. They could paly
exactly what they choose to listen.
Ans 33) In
1948, they introduced a new material for recordings called Vinod. It was more
resilient than shellac and could support a micro groove at a slow speed of 33
rpm. In addition, it also had more material.
Ans 34) Maria
Callas was a female successor to Caruso. Vocal performances could be heard with
absolute clarity.
Ans 35) In
1950’s the recording industry went into overdrive. A lot of good music found
its way on the disc. In 1960’s, Stereophonic hit the market and the repertoire
expanded.
Ans 36) Sergeant
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club made a special feature for the technique of
stereophonic sound.
Ans 37) A
2hr piece of music has about 2000 edits.
Ans 38) Music
in the modern age that played for a live audience or were to be recorded were
two different things.
Ans 39) In a
recording, the people hear the balance on the disc than in a live concert hall.
It has increased technical proficiency of musicians. This leads to lack of risk
taking and uniformity of performance.
Ans 40) Recordings
standardized performance styles and repertoire.
Ans 41)
Listening in the present is the triumph of the past over the present.
Ans 42) Fred
Gaisberg travelled all around the world to record strange yet wonderful sounds
of music from other cultures.
Ans 43) This
broadened the minds and triggered the imaginations of composers.
Ans 44)
Hungarian composer, Bela Barthok, recorded the music from his native country
using a phonograph.
Ans 45)
African music exerted its influence on European music.
Ans 46) David
Fanshawe, an English composer, compiled records consisting of tribal music. He
was trying to synchronize what he was hearing to this type of music.
Ans 47) He
believes that all the music and people are interrelated with each other. We
have a soul and that is the universe of music and retain the essence of pure
music.
Ans 48) Black
America gave brith to different styles of music such as jazz, hip-hop, rock
& roll, jungle, blues and motel.
Ans 49)
Stravinsky and Revel were some of the classical composers who were influenced
by the sounds of black Americans.
Ans 50)
Avant Garde composers were engaged in experimentations in sound and technology
that would have a profound effect in popular music.
Ans 51)
Steve Reich is brilliant because of digital sampling of the human voice.
Ans 52) Different
trains:
·
Haunting
and powerful provocation of his childhood and the reflection on the American
Jewish experience.
·
Voices
of the holocaust survivors describing their train tips that they were forced to
take during the second world war.
·
Reconciliation
of the painful memories of the past with the present.
Ans 53) He
believes that the music of this era is somehow related to the folk music of our
time.
Ans 54)
Music historians believe today’s music to be the age of convergence.
Ans 55)
Meltdown of previously rigid compartments and styles; the invention of recorded
sound.
Ans 56) The
four earlier big bangs were considered to be musical notation, opera, modern
tuning and recording.
Ans 57) The
next big bang of music could probably be the impact of the internet.
