his course is offered through the Department of Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
The Introduction to the Music Industry course MUS 2713 presents a survey of recording innovations from notation to musical boxes and sound recordings that have influenced the preservation, creation, and dissemination of popular music. Includes contributions by the popular performers and significant inventors. The course covers technology convergence and displacement, and the role of broadcasting in disseminating hit records throughout history. Students will discover how technology influenced the making of creative art and how music, in recording and performance, responded to each of the technology changes. Designed for students interested in the history of preservation of music in any form and its impact on culture and society. No prerequisite and no previous musical background is required. May be applied toward the Core Curriculum requirement in Creative Arts. Offered in the Fall Only.
This Blog is made possible thanks to a generous OER (Open Educational Resources) grant. Thus, this course is part of UTSA Libraries’ OER initiative, a collaboration between Dr. Stan Renard and UTSA Libraries to encourage faculty adoption of free and low-cost instructional materials into courses. Music Librarian William Glenn and OER Librarian DeeAnn Ivie are our UTSA Library liaisons.
Although Thomas Edison was more famous for inventing the light bulb, he also created the quadruplex. This was an early electronic telephone that let you send four different signals through four different wires, and was able to recieve all through one main wire. This gave people the ability to communicate with four others and receive their responses through one wire. The quadruplex was just one of the many inventions that Mr. Edison had, but this one helped guide many people to try different ways to send frequencies across country.
This is an amazing choice especially for students who’s majors fall into the arts. This can improve the modern understanding of how current music is made and how they become “hits”. Another great factor of this is the fact that students need no previous experience in order to enter.
This course is a good choice for students who just enjoy music in general. A good plus is that no one needs prerequisite for this course they can just choose to take it. This class gives so much insight on how music is produced and how the music people listen to today can be made, which is really fascinating.