本书向读者介绍了音乐制作和聆听方面最重要的技术发展，包括节拍器、记谱法和合成器的发展、最新的音乐协作应用程序，以及其他21世纪的技术。
《音乐与技术：历史百科全书》没有关注技术和机械细节，而是强调了技术发展在社会中的作用，突出了技术发展在社会中的作用。
学生和音乐爱好者都将从这本按字母顺序排列的百科全书中获得宝贵的见解，其中包括影响音乐创作、制作、传播、录制和/或消费的最重要的技术变革实例。这本书还包含了音乐和技术史上里程碑事件的年表，以及聚焦于几个关键音乐家和发明家的侧边栏。
包括100项与音乐制作、分享和聆听相关的最重要的技术成就
2019冠状病毒疾病的历史演变，包括古柯-19大流行如何重塑音乐传播方式的信息。
通过历史和社会学的视角而不是纯粹的技术视角来看待内容
为这个研究领域的新读者提供书目来源和术语表
Music and Technology: A Historical Encyclopedia
This book introduces readers to the most significant technological developments in music making and listening, including such topics as metronomes and the development of music notation as well as synthesizers, the latest music collaboration apps, and other 21st-century technologies.
Rather than focusing on technical and mechanical details, Music and Technology: A Historical Encyclopedia features the sociological role of technological developments by highlighting the roles they have played in society throughout time.
Students and music fans alike will gain valuable insight from this alphabetized encyclopedia of the most significant examples of technological changes that have impacted the creation, production, dissemination, recording, and/or consumption of music. The book also contains a chronology of milestone events in the history of music and technology as well as sidebars that focus on several key individual musicians and inventors.
Includes 100 entries on the most important technological achievements related to music making, sharing, and listening
Traces the evolution of music and technology from antiquity to the 21st century, including information on how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way music is created and disseminated
Approaches the content through a historical and sociological lens rather than a purely technical one
Offers bibliographic sources and a glossary of terms for readers new to this field of study
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