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Clavecin Electrique built by Jean Baptiste de La Borde - Keyboard that employed static electrical charges to make sounds.
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Music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production - begin end of 19th Century
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Spirited American Inventor - Thaddeus Cahill - Invented the Telharmonium
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The Wurlizter and the Theremin
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Magnetic tape recording technology - was able to record sound - could store and manipulate sound
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Leon Theremin signed a licensing agreement with RCA to make versions of his instrument.
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Laurens Hammond develops Hammond Organ - similar to the Telharmonium
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Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry - first song by electromechanical means created - Etude aux chemins de fer (Railway Etude)
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New kind of music needed new kind of notation
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Les Paul invented the electric guitar. He had a large affect on electronic music and its popularity.
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First songs created on computers - Illiac Suite for String Quartet
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RCA Mark II, Moog, Minimoog, Buchla
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Beatles and Beach Boys become popular using synthesizers and electronic music.
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Created standard language for instruments so that instruments and computers could talk to each other.
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Art of changing shounds and creating music using a turnable because popular.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRAfdiphYNU
New ways of music being created. People are using their laptops, iphones and ipads.
