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Music recording,  physical record of a musical performance that can then be played back, or reproduced.

Because music evaporates as soon as it is produced, humans, seeking permanence in  life’s ephemera, have long sought ways to record and reproduce it. The  efforts to capture the fleeting sounds of music have followed two basic methods: that of symbols and that of  signals. The former—musical notation—matured earlier, and in one form or  another it virtually monopolized the recording of music for centuries; the latter had to await the emergence of technology for its development. 

In notation, symbols are written down as a message  to a trained performing musician who understands them and reinterprets  them into sound. Signals, on the other hand—being direct physical  impressions of, and potential stimuli to, sounds—bypass the performer in  their reproduction and, in some electronic compositions,  even in their recording. This article concerns itself solely with the  latter, non symbolic, method. For information on the former method see notation.