Assertion: composer | /r/CapableOf | take the gramophone
Facets:
value: seriously
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously.
text: Described by the music writer Robert Philip as "the first composer to take the gramophone seriously", he had already recorded much of his music by the early acoustic-recording process for His Master's Voice (HMV) from 1914 onwards, but the introduction of electrical microphones in 1925 transformed the gramophone from a novelty into a realistic medium for reproducing orchestral and choral music.