How Long to Read Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction

How Long Does it Take to Read Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 41 minutes to read Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction by Mark Katz

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Description

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices. This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music--new or old, electronic or not--as technologies worthy of investigation. All musical instruments can be considered technologies. The modern piano, for example, is a marvel of keys, hammers, strings, pedals, dampers, and jacks; just the sound-producing mechanism, or action, on a piano has more than 50 different parts. In this broad view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos and phonographs) was a menace to "real" music; alternatively, technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive or negative, these views assume that technology is something that acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally technological.

How long is Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction?

Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction by Mark Katz is 161 pages long, and a total of 40,411 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction aloud.

What Reading Level is Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction?

Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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