Today is the anniversary of the day music was born.
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Yikes!!!
I’m surprised they didn’t killed it before it even started.
….and they we’re singing….bye, bye, Miss American pie…
I’ve wasted a lot of mental space over the years pondering this: Before the adoption of home audio technology (phonographs first, I assume), when you heard a piece of music you only heard it live. There’s a good chance you would never hear it again. There was no permanence for you to any music except traditional music played by families and friends.
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Ahh yeah . . . the first recorded jazz (the first record record of any kind)
was ragtime. Herb Albert Louis Armstorng were still a long way off.
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Yes.
I have NOT spent a lot of time thinking about it but,probably one’s music memory was church music and folk music and not much else.
The lack of recorded music might also explain why people memorized poems more, and poetry was a more powerful social force.
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The first recorded music came out in 1917
(and no one had a home phonograph a radio etc. with which to hear it) -
65 years ealier when Edgar Allan Poe published “The Raven” it must have been like the alters Top 40 hit!
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