Chapter 7-Recordings & the Music Industry Flashcards
Copyright
A legal right that grants to the owner of a work protection against unauthorized copying.
Format Wars
Rivalries in which companies selling specific types of recording and playback devices try to put competing companies with competing formats out of business.
Phonograph
Thomas Edison’s name for his first recording device.
Analog Recording
A recording technique in which representation of the sound wave is stored directly onto the recording medium.
Digital Recording
A recording technique in which sound is broken down electronically into a numerical code.
Nickelodeons
Early jukeboxes set up in amusement arcades.
Gramophone
Early playback device using a flat disc with lateral grooves cut on one side.
Tin Pan Alley
District in New York City where songs were written “on order” for Broadway shows.
Ragtime
Instrumental music with a steady, syncopated beat.
Victrola
Early hand-cranked record player introduced by the Victor Company.
Jukebox
A coin-operated phonograph.
Woofers
Large speakers that reproduce low sounds.
Tweeters
Small speakers that reproduce high sounds.
Track
A single recorded sound source, used in multitrack recording.
Stereophonic Sound
Recording technique in which tracks are placed individually in the right or left speaker.
High-Fidelity (hi-fi) Sound
Recorded sound true to the original.
Rap
Music composed of rhymed speech over drumbeats.
Hip-Hop
The backing music for rap; also refers to the culture of rap.
Compact Discs (CD’s)
Plastic discs with digitally encoded music read by lasers.
MP3
The name for compressed digital audio files that enable music to be downloaded from the internet.
Independent Label
Any recording industry company not owned by one of the major labels.
Artist and Repertoire (A&R) Executives
Specialists in the music industry who discover and develop the groups and performers.
Demos
Demonstration recordings sent in to record companies by artists’ agents, managers, or by the artists themselves.
Producer
In the music industry, the person who oversees the making of a master recording.
Arranger
A professional who adapts a song for specific singers and other musical elements.
Lyricist
A professional who specializes in writing the words of a song.
Reporting Stations
The radio stations whose playlists are tracked weekly to determine airplay popularity for individual songs.
Soundscan
A point-of-scale computer system that determines sales for best-selling records lists.
Soundscan
A point-of-scale computer system that determines sales for best-selling records lists.
