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## History of computers
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- Abacus
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- Leonardo DaVinci machine
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- Slide Rule
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- Differential engine
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- IBM machine (from US Census)
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## History of automatic music
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- Music boxes (from clothing manufacturing)
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- Electric Violin (from electric bathroom)
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- Phonograph
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- Teleharmonium
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- Theremin
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## Music Notation History
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- Hand notation (western)
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- Earliest examples in Nippur (Iraq) and Greece
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- Neumes (650ad), Notation before 5 line staff. Was representative not specific
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- Chinese use lute tableatures (100ad)
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- 800ad - 1400ad development of early western music notation
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- Chinese notation around 1425ad
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- Printed music around 1500-1700, in Italy. First to do polyphonic music. Developed an international style of notation
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- Computer aided notation (fonts, layouts, rules). Each element assigned a code. Until mid 1800s notation was mostly done by hand. During 1800s various machines to automate the process (typewriter)
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- Keaton Music typewriter (1930s)
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- Effingers music-writer in 1955 (amateurs and musicians)
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- Max Mathhews at Bell Labs (Hiller, Isaacson built earliest synths ILLIAC, RCA)
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- Only language was the native ones (punch cards, paper tape)
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- Programs on IBM PCs appear that do notation
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- Standardization begins to change the landscape
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- Mac brings graphics to mainstream
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- Midi standardized
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- Sonata Adobe font
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- Laser printers
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- MIDI facilitated the way devices speak to each other in regards to music information
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- Finale and Sibelius emerge as big notation software
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## Acoustics
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- Frequency - Pitch (Hz)
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- Amplitude - Loudness (dB)
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- Envelope - Attack -> Decay -> Sustain -> Release, envelope is the entire pattern
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- Harmonic Spectrum - The entire tone of a note (fundamental and overtones)
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- Timbre - Color of the sound
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- Fundamental - Fundamental note in character of a note (not the partials)
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- Overtones - Tones above the fundamental (partials)
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- Pitch (Musician Name)
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- Loudness (Musician Name)
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- Articulation
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- Cloud based solutions emerge as competitors
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## Sequencing
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- A device or software than can record, edit, or playback music
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- Early
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- Resembled piano roll
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