This course analyzes and evaluates concepts, events, designs, and creative works that have served as catalysts in the progression of music technology over time. It also explores historical paradigms that helped shape the progression of technology in music and related fields. Treatment is given to a variety of movements, music-forms, communities and entities, that contributed to their age through technological, conceptual, and artistic innovation. Through the study of the past, the class will develop rationales for new and emerging technologies that relate to the expression of music.