Sounds, Voices and Codes from the Twentieth Century. The critical editing of music at Mirage
Edited by Luca Cossettini and Angelo Orcalli
The traditional history of sound is the history of musical instruments, the anatomy of vocal and hearing systems, musical gestures, well‐established theories in treatises and its written notation codes. Can we safely say that more than 140 years of sound recording have managed to transform this historical background? And to what extent did sound recording influence the future of music?