| Aborigines, lowest in the scale of savagery, chant their song to tribal gods and play upon pipes and shark-skin drums | It cannot be otherwise because the quality of music is dependent on the mood of the artist, upon the human contact, without which the essence of intellectual stimulation and emotional rapture is lost |
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| "1927 — With the release of the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer, orchestras in movie theaters were displaced | Musical development has kept pace with good taste and ethics throughout the ages, and has influenced the gentler nature of man more powerfully perhaps than any other factor |
Musical authorities know that the soul of the Art is lost in mechanisation.
13| This is the case of Art versus Mechanical Music in theatres | The earliest known surviving electrical recording was made on a magnetic recorder at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris |
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| If the theatre-going public accepts this vitiation of its entertainment program a deplorable decline in the Art of Music is inevitable | Coleman, Mark 2003 Chapter 2, "War on Canned Music" |
Methods of high quality recording and reproduction of speech based on telephone research.
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