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Electronic and experimental music : Pioneers in technology and composition / Thom Holmes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2002Edition: Second editionDescription: xii, 322 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415936438
  • 9780415936439
  • 0415936446
  • 9780415936446
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.69 21
Contents:
Part I. Early history - predecessors and pioneers (1874 to 1960) -- 1. Electronic music before 1945 -- 2. Early electronic music in Europe -- 3. Early electronic music in the United States -- 4. Early electronic music in Japan -- Part II. Analog synthesis and instruments -- 5. Tape composition and fundamental concepts of electronic music -- 6. Early synthesizers and experimenters -- 7. Principles of analog synthesis and voltage control -- 8. The voltage-controlled synthesizer -- 9. The evolution of analog synthesizers -- Part III. Digital synthesis and computer music -- 10. Early computer music (1953-85) -- 11. The microprocessor revolution (1975-90) -- 12. The principles of computer music -- 13. The evolution of computer musical instruments and software -- Part IV. The music -- 14. Classical and experimental music -- 15. Live electronic music and ambient music -- 16. Rock, space age pop, and turntablism -- Pioneering works of electronic music.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 781.69 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A290448B

Previous ed.: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes discography.

Part I. Early history - predecessors and pioneers (1874 to 1960) -- 1. Electronic music before 1945 -- 2. Early electronic music in Europe -- 3. Early electronic music in the United States -- 4. Early electronic music in Japan -- Part II. Analog synthesis and instruments -- 5. Tape composition and fundamental concepts of electronic music -- 6. Early synthesizers and experimenters -- 7. Principles of analog synthesis and voltage control -- 8. The voltage-controlled synthesizer -- 9. The evolution of analog synthesizers -- Part III. Digital synthesis and computer music -- 10. Early computer music (1953-85) -- 11. The microprocessor revolution (1975-90) -- 12. The principles of computer music -- 13. The evolution of computer musical instruments and software -- Part IV. The music -- 14. Classical and experimental music -- 15. Live electronic music and ambient music -- 16. Rock, space age pop, and turntablism -- Pioneering works of electronic music.

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