Music Research

From the entry of the UK's Science and Media Museum: "how did sound in cinema evolve from the sometimes-peculiar era of silent films to what we know today? In this post we will take you on a whistle-stop tour of the story of sound in film."

This Library of Congress "site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles."

"This brief historic time-line illustrates major events in the recorded sound industry, from the birth of the recorded sound in 1857, to the merger of the two recording industry giants Columbia and Victor Records in 2004 under their parent companies Sony and Bertelsmann Music Group while TowerRecords files for bankruptcy."

A description of a project to restore Smithsonian recordings from Bell's Volta Laboratory, with digitized sound examples

From the website: "ARSC has produced two podcast series: Echoes of History, produced by Anthony Wellman, and Time Collected, produced by Joe Stolarick and other ARSC members. Echoes of History explores vanished eras and forgotten times through the medium of sound. Time Collected takes a closer look at the people, places, and events associated with selected historical sound recordings."