new yorker article

THE RECORD EFFECT
by ALEX ROSS

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atl...06crat_atlarge


Mark Katz's "Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music"

Colin Symes's "Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of
Classical Recording"

Robert Philip's "Performing Music in the Age of Recording"

Technology has certainly transformed the economics and ethics of music;
the better the transcription medium, the more easily one can quibble
about which details of the performance should belong to whom and for how
long.