[78-L] Fw: For 78's, What Does Transcription Mean?

[DKing]

Thanks David, that makes sense.

And it helped seeing your example of musical transcription too.  If you approve of the idea of taking one type of music and putting it into a new arrangement for a different style of music, you might like the work of Scott Bradlee’s “Postmodern Jukebox”.

For example, take “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, where Green Day's rock & roll is transformed by Bradlee.

Note by Scott Bradlee, who is on the piano:

"On our day off on tour we brought Maiya Sykes into the studio, where she delivered this powerful, emotionally raw performance of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" on the very first take.  Folks, Maiya Sykes is the real deal, and everyone should know about this incredible vocalist."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riZck9O-kBU <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riZck9O-kBU>

The comparison is a long way from classical music, so I hope I’m forgiven by Stokowski.

- Dave King


> On Mar 31, 2020, at 7:05 PM, David Lennick <dplennick at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
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> Musically, transcription can refer to an arrangement such as Bach 'transcribed for orchestra' by someone like Stokowski. In 78 context it's from the same era of recorded sound (pre-LP) and is short for 'electrical transcription' or 'radio transcription', a disc recorded off air or intended for broadcast in the days before tape.
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> dl
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> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: DKing <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid>
> Date: March 31, 2020 at 7:55 PM
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> Many of you recently referred to “transcription”.
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> What does transcription mean in the context of 78’s,
> and can it have more than one meaning?
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> - Dave King
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