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telephone. With the first printing of musical scores in the
sixteenth century, words and music drifted apart. The separate
virtuosity of voice and instruments became the basis of the
great musical developments of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. The same kind of fragmentation and specialism in
the arts and sciences made possible mammoth results in
industry and in military enterprise, and in massive cooperative
enterprises such as the newspaper and the symphony
orchestra.
Certainly the phonograph as a product of industrial,
assembly-line organization and distribution showed little of the
electric qualities that had inspired its growth in the mind of
Edison. There were prophets who could foresee the great day
when the phonograph would aid medicine by providing a
medical means of discrimination between “the sob of hysteria