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Today is the greatest day in the history of music
Posted on 11/21/17 at 8:30 am
Posted on 11/21/17 at 8:30 am
Although debatable, today is considered the day the phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. Our lives revolve around music. Music has brought so much enjoyment throughout my life. It has been there for both the good times and bad times. Music, and the ability to record it, is truly the best thing ever invented IMHO. Thank you Thomas Edison.
Posted on 11/21/17 at 10:09 am to MardiGrasCajun
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I foresee a marked deterioration in American music and musical taste, an interruption in the musical development of the country, and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue – or rather by vice – of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines.
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It is the living, breathing example alone that is valuable to the student and can set into motion his creative and performing abilities. The ingenuity of a phonograph's mechanism may incite the inventive genius to its improvement, but I could not imagine that a performance by it would ever inspire embryotic Mendelssohns, Beethovens, Mozarts, and Wagners to the acquirement of technical skill, or to the grasp of human possibilities in the art.
quote:John Philip Sousa, "The Menace of Mechanical Music," 1906
It is at the fireside that we look for virtue and patriotism; for songs that stir the blood and fire the zeal; for songs of home, of mother, and of love, that touch the heart and brighten the eye. Music teaches all that is beautiful in this world. Let us not hamper it with a machine that tells the story day by day, without variation, without soul, barren of the joy, the passion, the ardor that is the inheritance of man alone.
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