| Music is the art of combining vocal and
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| | (phonograph) record player. The last of
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| or instrumental tones in a structured
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| | the records to come out was the 45 made
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| manner.
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| | for single songs.
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| Music has been around almost as long as
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| | It took the music industry decades to
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| the earth is old. We can designate
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| | advance from the 45 record to new
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| medieval music as a beginning, although a
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| | formats, such as 8-tracks and audio
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| precise time is impossible because the
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| | cassette tapes. Once they were created it
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| knowledge of that time period is too
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| | seemed as if the industry took off and
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| vague.
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| | overnight the CD (molded plastic disk
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| However, in the 1100s large volumes of
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| | scanned by a laser beam for digital data)
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| written, notated polyphony and
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| | was "born". These, like the record were,
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| non-liturgical Latin songs began emerging
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| | and still are, sold in stores for
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| before two major changes began to take
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| | customers to purchase and take home to
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| place.a) The use of the interval of a
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| | play on their CD players. Following
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| third as a stable harmony.b) Humanistic
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| | shortly behind is the Mp3 player(standard
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| orientation to text with music.
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| | technology and format for compressing
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| These changes took several decades,
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| | audio signals into very small computer
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| putting the beginning of the Renaissance
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| | files. Sound data from a CD is compressed
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| somewhere between the 1420s (harmonies of
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| | to 1/12 the original size) and ipod
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| Dufay) and the 1500s (humanistic texts of
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| | (portable Mp3 player).
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| Josquin), which brings us to the
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| | Now, the pace has picked up even faster
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| beginning of opera in the 1600s. The
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| | and we can download music right off the
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| Renaissance style ended around 1750 and
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| | internet. In the beginning though, a
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| is also among the clearest divisions of
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| | company (I'm not going to mention any
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| Western music.
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| | names) was allowing people to download as
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| Sometime in the early 1700s through the
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| | many songs as they chose for free. But,
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| late 1800s, the best known pieces of
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| | there was a problem..It was not exactly
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| European Classical music were written.
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| | legal. A computer company names Apple
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| The 1800s was the beginning of a new era,
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| | made the process legitimate by allowing
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| because of a brilliant man by the name of
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| | the artists to get paid for their work.
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| Thomas Edison. This man was an
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| | The music industry now has the
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| exceptional inventor, on 12-6-1877 he
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| | opportunity to license and sell it's
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| finished one of his best inventions...The
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| | content over the internet. The idea that
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| phonograph and had it patent on
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| | people would pay for downloading music
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| 2-19-1878. Now mind you it was a fairly
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| | seemed a bit far fetched in the
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| complicated machine, using a metal
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| | beginning. But, music sales have gone
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| cylinder with tin foil wrapped around it.
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| | down by one-fifth since the millennium
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| The machine had two diaphragm-and-needle
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| | and downloads increased to over 500
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| units, one for recording, and one for
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| | million by July of 2005.
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| playback. When he spoke into a
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| | A revolution in the music industry was
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| mouthpiece, the sound vibrations would be
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| | changed dramatically on February 23, 2006
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| indented onto the cylinder by the
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| | when a 16 year old, Alex Ostrovsky came
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| recording needle in a vertical groove
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| | home and downloaded a song from the
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| pattern. Edison gave a sketch of the
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| | Coldplay concert he left just minutes
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| machine to his mechanic, John Kreusi, to
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| | before. Alex down loaded one of the songs
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| build, which Kreusi supposedly did within
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| | for 99 cents from the iTunes Music store
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| about 30 hours. Edison immediately tested
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| | (which the Apple computer company started
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| the machine by speaking the nursery rhyme
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| | less than 3 years ago). Shortly after
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| "Mary had a little lamb" into the
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| | that an Apple employee called to let him
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| mouthpiece, and to his amazement, the
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| | know he has just downloaded the ONE
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| machine played his words back to him.
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| | BILLIONTH song. For being the lucky
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| Now, we are going to get a little closer
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| | downloader, Apple Computer Company is
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| to the twentieth century of music in time
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| | sending him a $10,000.00 gift card for
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| in the 1900s. Starting in the beginning
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| | the iTunes Music Store, a 20-inch iMac,
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| of the 1900s, there were disks (no, not
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| | 10 ipods, and a scholarship to the
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| CD's yet) used by recording studios to
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| | Juilliard School in New York.
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| record music. These discs called records
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| | The "one billionth download" should go to
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| were then sold in stores for consumers to
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| | show you how much this industry has taken
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| purchase and take home to play on their
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| | over the music world over time!
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