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History
of Technology of Music - everything here is designed to pique
your curiosity about music, musical instruments and history. So
delve, delight, explore and enjoy!
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This page updated 5 August 2008
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Top albums of 1990s include: The Smiths, The Queen is Dead, The Pixies, Doolittle, Public Enemy with It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, The Stones Roses, The Stone Roses, New Order Power, Lies and Corruption.
1990s: Richard Jinman Sydney Morning Herald 8 July 2004 writes, "In the '90s, rock found its nirvana, a rage of self-hate and nihilism. But even that could be corporatised…"
1990: Electronic music/digital audio: Arrival of a matured,
third
generation of Macintosh musicware enabling: use of internal computer
cards for direct-to-hard-disk recording systems, MIDI sequencers with
512 channels and linkable to patch libraries, MIDI sequencers can
incorporate digital audio tracks, use of patch libraries and sample
editors. CD-ROMs begin to carry music education software. MIDI
programming language becomes visual. Notation becomes compatible with
Standard MIDI files (SMF) format and MIDI Manager. A pioneer of this
generation was the IMS Dyaxis system (once marketed by Studer
Editech). Then Digidesign introduced their two-channel Sound Tools
package (which used their Sound Accelorator internal NuBus card,
which was followed by their four-channel Deck software using their
Audiomedia card. Later came their 4-16channel ProTools package, which
allowed initial input as analog, but direct digital input/output was
soon innovated. In late 1990 from Lone Wolf appeared MIDITap,
offering 65,00 MIDI channels and costing $US3000.
See
Christopher Yavelow, MacWorld: Music and Sound Bible: The
Definitive Guide to Music, Sound and Multimedia on the Mac.
(Foreword by Herbie Hancock) San Mateo, California, IDG Books
International, 1992.
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The 1990s: Top albums of the decade are regarded as: Nirvana with Nevermind; Jeff Buckley, Grace; Massive Attack, Blue Lines, Pulp, Different Class; and Nick Cave, The Good Son. Also, top albums of 1990s include: The Smiths, The Queen is Dead, The Pixies, Doolittle, Public Enemy with It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses, New Order Power, Lies and Corruption.
1990s: Richard Jinman in Sydney Morning Herald 8 July 2004 writes, “In the '90s, rock found its nirvana, a rage of self-hate and nihilism. But even that could be corporatised”.
1990:
USA: A judge in Nevada rules that the British heavy metal rock band
Judas Priest was not responsible for the deaths of
two youths
who shot themselves after listening to the band's music.
1991: Three young people are crushed to death at an AC/DC concert in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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1992: Beastie Boys issue album Check Your Head on Grand Royal/Capitol.
1992: Electronic music/digital audio: Software distributors Mark of the Unicorn and Steinberg release music packages, respectively, Digital Performer and CuBase Audio, which produced CD-quality, and utilised the latest digital audio cards. (By 1984, Macintosh computers offered one music software product, by 1992 they offered more than 700!)
1992: Publication of Christopher Yavelow, MacWorld: Music and Sound Bible: The Definitive Guide to Music, Sound and Multimedia on the Mac. (Foreword by Herbie Hancock) San Mateo, California, IDG Books International, 1992.
1992: Beastie Boys issue album Check Your Head on Grand Royal/Capitol.
January 1993: Management of the Awards presentations for the
Tamworth Country Music Festival is taken over by Country Music
Association of Australia. Prime TV this year expands its coverage of
festival events.
(Milestone in history/development of
Tamworth,
the Country Music Capital of Australia)
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1994: Given history of Tamworth Country Music Festival to
date, an
innovation arises as 2TM and BAL Marketing have over co-ordination of
the festival to Tamworth City Council.
(Milestone in
history/development of Tamworth, the Country Music Capital of
Australia)
1994: Career of the The Beatles moves back in time somewhat as their release of 1963 sessions for BBC Radio show Pop Go The Beatles, album Live At The BBC goes multi-platinum. Songs include their versions of That's All Right, Mama, Carol, Soldier of Love and Clarabella.
1994: Beastie Boys issue Ill Communication. On Grand Royal/Capitol. (Songs are more issue-related)
1994: Nirvana frontman and grunge hero Kurt Cobain commits suicide. A good many conspiracy theories arise including allegation he was murdered. Check websites: www.nirvanaclub.com and a Cobain memorial site at: www.cobain.com
1994: Beastie Boys issue Ill Communication. On Grand Royal/Capitol. (Songs are "more issue-related".)
1995: Australia: First year of the Bellingen Global Carnival, feasting on world music. This festival avoids presenting big names and concentrates on lesser-known but high quality talent. (Wolrd music remains big in Oz - see items on these pages re regular WOMAdelaide festival devoted to world music.)
1995: Rolling Stones tour in Tokyo sells 285,294 tickets and grosses $42.14 million, a world record till broken in July 2003.
1996: Awards presentation of Tamworth Country Music Festival
becomes the first Australian Awards presentations to be featured in
national Australian Pay TV.
(Milestone in
history/development of
Tamworth, the Country Music Capital of Australia)
1996: A bizarre celebrity story from Afghanistan: As the Taliban come to power around Kabul in 1996, they have a mind to destroy the legend of "the Elvis" of their country, Afghanistan's most beloved pop musician, Ahmad Zahir. (Died about 1983.) Zahir like Elvis wore black hair, long sideburns and wide-collared shirts. His popularity has endured and also as with Elvis, his legend continues to grow. He mixed Eastern/Afghan and Western music to sing songs of love and pain, and God - if they were not modelled on Beatles or surf music. Hating his legacy, the Taliban in 1996 tried to destroy his grave. By 2003, a committee formed to restore the grave. (From an item in Editor Section, Weekend Australian, 5-6 April 2003)
1996: Choice cut from The Human League: The band's Phil Oakey has said, "We weren't very good, I have to say. We were a fairly rotten band until '96 or so. Because we came out of punk we thought you shouldn't rehearse."
1997: Establishment in Tamworth of the annually-held
Australian
College of Country Music via links between TAFE and
CMAA
(Country Music Association of Australia). A two-week school to
nurture and train up-and-coming talent, for 21 singers, songwriters
and instrumentalists. Some attention is given also to music industry
studies and recording techniques.
(Milestone in
history/development of Tamworth, the Country Music Capital of
Australia)
1997: Establishment in Tamworth, Country Music Capital of TREC (Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre). To become a major venue for use during annual Tamworth Country Music Festival and of course at other times during the year.
1997: Radiohead issues album, Paranoid Android.
1997: Unexpected death by drowning of phenomenally talented singer Jeff Buckley, son of Tim Buckley who died in 1975. Jeff Buckley's main legacy is probably his extraordinary album, Grace.
1997, Radiohead issues album, Paranoid Android.
1998: Six of Australia's leading record companies combine to
launch Fanfest, to showcase and promote newest
talent in
Australian country music circles. A series of concerts over several
days.
(Milestone in history/development of Tamworth, the
Country
Music Capital of Australia)
1998: Beastie Boys issue Hello Nasty on Grand Royal/Capitol.
October 1999: About now, HoTM notices a series of in-depth articles in newspapers on electronic books, but oddly enough, such articles do not seem to make any notice on books of music notation/sheet music becoming available in such electronic formats. HoTM wonders: why would this be? Is it because the better-quality music notation software takes care of the situation acceptably?
1999: Organisers of Britain's Millennium Dome announce that the "song of the millennium" to be sung on next New Year's Eve would be The Beatles' All You Need Is Love.
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AND NOW FOR - The most-played song of the Twentieth Century is a standard male lament: "You've lost that lovin' feeling'', as sung by the Righteous Brothers. (And a great song, too!)
1990s: Some top albums of the decade are regarded as: Nirvana with "Nevermind", Jeff Buckley, "Grace", Massive Attack, "Blue Lines", Pulp, "Different Class" and Nick Cave with "The Good Son".
You can find an excellent music-and-recording history timeline at (Error 500 - can't connect): http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html
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this website's growing Glossary of Musical Terms
and
definitions, &c, and other items of interest, see: The
HoTM Glossary
For useful lists of songs songs songs by year. etc – and very impressive – see compilations at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_by_year
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