Stream or download audio for Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute

Welcome to the digital audio companion page for Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute, our 48-page softcover book and flexi disc commemorating the 200th anniversary of Leon Scott’s birth. Detailed track notes are included in your book; this page provides links to listen to the audio. The player in the first tab allows you to listen to all 7 tracks with one click and offers the ability to navigate within the sound files; the buttons in the second tab allows you to select individual tracks for listening or downloading.

 

 

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 1. The 1857 Phonautograms by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
– Diapason donnant 512 vibrations par seconde
– Un son de voix grave tenu dans le voisinage de la membrane
– Timbre du cornet à piston
2. The 1860 Phonautograms by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (pt 1)
– S’il faut qu’à ce rival; Othello, Act 4, Scene 2
– Epellation du mot rira
– Le jour n’est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur; Phèdre, Act 4, Scene 2
– Au clair de la lune
3. The 1860 Phonautograms by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (pt 2)
– Gamme de la voix
– Chi crederia che sotto forme umane; Aminta
– Et incarnatus est de Chérubini; Missa Solemnis in D minor
– Vole, petite abeille; “La Chanson de l’Abeille,” La reine Topaze
4. The 1874 Phonautograms by Alexander Graham Bell

– Five vowel snippets from a photographic print at Library of Congress
– Five vowel snippets from the engraving in Prescott
– Each vowel snippet, first from the photographic print, then from Prescott
5. The 1878 Phonautograms by Thomas Edison
– Train Sounds
– Vocalizations
6. The 1887 Phonautograms by Emile Berliner
– Snippets of Vowels
– Recitation
7. The 1889 Phonautograms by Emile Berliner
– Counting (1 to 20), Reiters Morgenlied

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