Notes/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/MAAC3113/In class notes.md

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History of computers

  • Abacus
  • Leonardo DaVinci machine
  • Slide Rule
  • Differential engine
  • IBM machine (from US Census)

History of automatic music

  • Music boxes (from clothing manufacturing)
  • Electric Violin (from electric bathroom)
  • Phonograph
  • Teleharmonium
  • Theremin

Music Notation History

  • Hand notation (western)
  • Earliest examples in Nippur (Iraq) and Greece
  • Neumes (650ad), Notation before 5 line staff. Was representative not specific
  • Chinese use lute tableatures (100ad)
  • 800ad - 1400ad development of early western music notation
  • Chinese notation around 1425ad
  • Printed music around 1500-1700, in Italy. First to do polyphonic music. Developed an international style of notation
  • 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)
  • Keaton Music typewriter (1930s)
  • Effingers music-writer in 1955 (amateurs and musicians)
  • Max Mathhews at Bell Labs (Hiller, Isaacson built earliest synths ILLIAC, RCA)
  • Only language was the native ones (punch cards, paper tape)
  • Programs on IBM PCs appear that do notation
  • Standardization begins to change the landscape
    • Mac brings graphics to mainstream
    • Midi standardized
    • Sonata Adobe font
    • Laser printers
  • MIDI facilitated the way devices speak to each other in regards to music information
  • Finale and Sibelius emerge as big notation software
  • Cloud based solutions emerge as compeditors