History of Technology in Music is a publication that provides students with a broader awareness of how technology has intersected with the musical arts (and vice versa) to affect society across human existence. Comprised of 14 units, students explore the earliest known artifacts of music and end with where musical technology may be heading in the future. A primary goal of the text is deriving an understanding that while technology has evolved over the course of time, human nature has remained consistent.
Unit 1: Useful Music and Music Technology Terms
Unit 2: Ancient Music, Machines, and Philosophies
Unit 3: Music in the Western Medieval and Renaissance Periods
Unit 4: History of Music Notation
Unit 5: History of Printing and Music Publishing
Unit 6: Opera and Acoustic Machines
Unit 7: Self-Playing Instruments
Unit 8: Electrophones
Unit 9: Broadcasting and Mass Media
Unit 10: History of Sound Recording Technology
Unit 11: Commerce and the Marketplace
Unit 12: Sampling
Unit 13: Music in Film and Video Games
Unit 14: The Internet and the Future