A Bicentennial Tribute
by Various Artists

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  • Released: May 7, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2019
  • Label: Archeophone Records

Product Description:

Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817-1879) invented sound recording twenty years before Thomas Edison re-invented it. But his phonautograph is only one of his many accomplishments. Here the partners of First Sounds--the team that played back an 1860 recording of "Au Clair de la Lune" in 2008 and brought Scott's achievement to the attention of the world--tell his story in depth.



David Giovannoni recounts Scott's invention and development of sound recording; Patrick Feaster details Scott's role as the father of sound technology; and noted French author Anne Thiollier offers the first modern biography of Scott, based on family papers. All three essays celebrate Scott's scientific and literary achievements at the bicentennial of his birth.



COLLECTOR'S ITEM: The enclosed 33-1/3 rpm flexi disc presents several of Scott's recordings made in 1857 and 1860. Also featured are some of the earliest recordings made in the U.S. by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Emile Berliner on experimental devices influenced by Scott's phonautograph. Recorded between 1874 and 1889, these American recordings appear here for the first time on disc.



This album is a 7.25-inch x 7.25-inch full-color 48-page softcover book, with a 7-inch square flexi disc enclosed. The six-minute disc is banded into seven tracks, each consisting of one or more phonautogram eductions. The full playlist is as follows:



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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