When did recorded music become popular?
When did recorded music become popular? Birth of a mass medium. In the decade 1910–20 the phonograph became a truly mass medium for popular music, and recordings of large-scale orchestral works and other classical instrumental music proliferated. How did music used to be recorded? Long before sound was first recorded, music was recorded—first by written music notation, then also by mechanical devices (e.g., wind-up music boxes, in which a mechanism turns a spindle, which plucks metal tines, thus reproducing a melody). How was music listened to in the past? They used magnetic tape, and the music played through from left...