6 20 Music Language in use: The history of sound recording Read the text about the history of sound recording. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–L) for each gap (1–9). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. In the late 19th century Thomas Alva Edison invented the first sound-… 0 machine, which he called the phonograph. This was a machine that used wax cylinders to … 1 musical data. Emile Berliner introduced flat discs to record sounds as early as 1889. These … 2 were easier to handle and became the fore-runners of … 3 discs, which came into fashion in the 20th century. All these processes were analogue, which means that the sound waves were recorded by changing the surface of the … 4 or disc, which was used for the process. In the 1920s electromagnetic recordings were first introduced and changed the whole industry. Since then the … 5 has increased steadily. The most modern way to record sound is … 6 recording. The sound waves that hit the … 7 are transformed into … 8 signals, which can be stored as computer data on a storage … 9 like a CD, a hard disk or a flash drive (e.g. a mobile phone). A cylinder G recording 0 G 6 B digital H singer 1 7 C discs I sound quality 2 8 D electromagnetic J store 3 9 E medium K tape 4 F microphone L vinyl 5 Discussing a song Fill the gaps with suitable adjectives. 2 ✔ 3 aggressive • exciting • fast • loud • melodious • modern • monotonous • simple • slow • soft 1. The singer’s voice is very gentle, but for me it is too soft . 2. No one else has ever played such a song before – it is very in style. 3. The lyrics are always the same – it is such a song. 4. The tune sounds good because the song is so . 5. The tune is played at a high speed, it is quite . 6. You can sing the song easily because the lyrics and the tune are very . 7. For me this song is boring, just a bit too . Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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