Preface

Introduction: A Long History of Music Technology

Part 1. Perspective: Musicians’ Theories of Technology
1. The First Musical Instruments?
2. Music Writing
3. Sound and Number

Part 2. Perspective: How Do(n’t) Music Technologies Change?
4. From Found Objects to Valved Brass
5. Viols and Violins
6. Orchestras
7. Saxophone

Part 3. Perspective: Values in Musical Instrument Design
8. Voice as Instrument
9. Organ, “King of Instruments”
10. More Keyboard Instruments
11. Instruments of Ethereal Tone

Part 4. Perspective: Transculturation
12. Cymbals
13. Banjo
14. Harmonium

Part 5. Perspective: Rationalization and Standardization
15. Tuning Trouble
16. Metronomes
17. A440, CD, MP3, MIDI

Part 6. Perspective: Gender in the Mix
18. Accordions
19. Electric Guitar and Reconceptualization
20. Electronics Explorers
21. Mainstreaming Electronic Sounds

Part 7. Perspective: Becoming a Musical Instrument
22. Player Piano and Phonograph
23. Microphone
24. Magnetic Tape, Multitracking, and Looping
25. Turntables and Samplers
26. Drum Machines

Part 8. Perspective: Hopes and Fears
27. The Promise of Computers
28. Auto-Tune Debates
29. Algorithms and the Internet
30. What’s Next?

Acknowledgments
List of Audio and Video Examples
Index