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How recording changed music

Arts & Music · Music · ages 15-16
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  1. What does a microphone turn sound into?

    • A storable form you can keep and copy
    • Light for a screen
    • Heat for a room

  2. Before recording existed, when did music exist?

    • Only while someone played it live
    • On tapes in every home
    • Inside streaming apps

  3. A speaker turns a stored recording back into sound you can hear.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. What is sampling, and why does it cause rows?

    • Reusing a slice of another record, disputed over credit and payment
    • Singing quietly in a library
    • Tuning a guitar before a show

  5. What did multitrack recording make possible?

    • Banning all studio editing
    • Playing every song only once
    • Layering parts one by one beyond a single live take

  6. How did mixtapes and CDs show that formats pick who gets heard?

    • Formats never affect any listener
    • Passed-around tapes pushed underground styles to the charts
    • Only live halls ever mattered

  7. An artist uploads alone and reaches the far side of the planet. What changed?

    • Nothing changed since live halls
    • Streaming removed the need for a record deal
    • Songs can no longer travel

  8. Why do streamed songs often open with short intros?

    • Intros are banned by law
    • Streaming shapes songs toward fast hooks
    • Speakers cannot play long intros
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  1. A storable form you can keep and copy · It captures sound so a recording can travel beyond the room.
  2. Only while someone played it live · Songs lasted only as long as the live playing did.
  3. True · Storage out, sound back: that is the trip from room to headphones.
  4. Reusing a slice of another record, disputed over credit and payment · Borrowed sound raises the question of who gets credited and paid.
  5. Layering parts one by one beyond a single live take · Parts can be built, fixed and stacked without replaying everything live.
  6. Passed-around tapes pushed underground styles to the charts · Easy copying carried ignored sounds to millions at once.
  7. Streaming removed the need for a record deal · Upload tools put world reach in far more hands than big studios did.
  8. Streaming shapes songs toward fast hooks · The platform rewards quick grabs, so song shapes bend toward it.
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