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Music in Code - for iPad/Mac/PC
by The Open University
Today, listening to music is easy - we have CDs, MP3s, radio, television and the internet. But around a hundred years ago life was very different - either you had to play music yourself or have someone else play it for you. The 15 video tracks in this album demonstrate various ways to play music by mechanical means, with the ingenious use of levers, pegs, cylinders or paper rolls, and explain the principles used to create and control these music-making machines. This material forms part of TA212 Technology of Music.
Episodes
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Music in Code
A short introduction to this album
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The Decap Cafe Organ
The mechanical music manufacturer’s craft - how a robot organ plays music through code.
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The Pin Barrel
What is a pin barrel and how does it create music? The mechanisms of pin barrrels in the Nickelodeon Collection at Ashorne Hall.
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Street Piano
The story of a traditional barrel piano from Warwick, its mechanism and repertoire.
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Hand barrel organ
How the mechanism works, producing specific musical effects such as vibrato and trills.
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Musical Box
The manufacture and repertoire of a 19th century cylinder musical box.
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Pin Disk Musical Box
Experts compare disc versus cylinder design.
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The Paper Roll: Reiterating Piano
The piano melodica. How book music is made, how the mechanism works and how to add expression to the music.
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The Paper Roll: Organette
How the reed organ is constructed and how a paper roll controls the mechanism.
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Reproducing Player Piano
The advent of electrically run instruments allowed composers to record musical interpretation directly onto the paper roll.
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Electromechanical Violin Player
How this American invention works, and an example of the sound it creates.
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Banjo Orchestrion
A recently built paper roll instrument uses a computerised cutter working to Midi instructions.
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Electric Orchestrion
Instruments, lighting effects and scenery, all operated by instructions contained on a single paper roll.
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Clockwork Barrel Orchestrion (performance)
An example performance.
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Reproducing Player Piano (performance)
An example performance.
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Banjo Orchestrion (performance)
An example performance.
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Today, listening to music is easy - we have CDs, MP3s, radio, television and the internet. But around a hundred years ago life was very different - either you had to play music yourself or have someone else play it for you. The 15 video tracks in this album demonstrate various ways to play music by mechanical means, with the ingenious use of levers, pegs, cylinders or paper rolls, and explain the principles used to create and control these music-making machines. This material forms part of TA212 Technology of Music.
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