The ambient century : from Mahler to trance : the evolution of sound in the electronic age / Mark Prendergast.
| Author/creator | Prendergast, Mark J. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st US ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury, ©2000. |
| Description | xii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Book one. The electronic landscape. Gustav Mahler -- Erik Satie -- Claude Debussy -- Maurice Ravel -- Frederick Delius -- Charles Griffes -- Charles Ives -- Iberian Sounds -- William Duddell -- Thaddeus Cahill -- Lee De Forest -- Luigi Russolo -- Leon Theremin -- Maurice Martenot -- Jorg Mager -- Friedrich Trautwein and Oskar Sala -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg and Anton Webern -- Leopold Stokowski -- Edgard Varese -- Percy Grainger -- Olivier Messiaen -- Paul Bowles -- Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry -- John Cage -- Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Miles Davis -- Daphne Oram -- Raymond Scott -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Pierre Boulez -- Iannis Xenakis -- Morton Feldman -- Morton Subotnick -- Wendy Carlos -- Toru Takemitsu -- Kaija Saariaho -- Electronic media. Records -- Magnetic tape -- Keyboards, synthesizers and computers -- Compact disc -- Book two. Minimalism, Eno and the new simplicity. La Monte Young -- Terry Riley -- Steve Reich -- Brian Eno -- Philip Glass -- ECM -- Windham Hill and new age music -- Harold Budd -- Jon Hassell -- Michael Nyman -- John Adams -- Arvo Part -- Henryk Gorecki -- John Tavener -- Other minimalists. Book three. Ambience in the rock era. Innovators. Leo Fender -- Les Paul -- Joe Meek -- The Beatles -- Bob Dylan -- The Beach Boys -- Jimi Hendrix -- Ravi Shankar -- The Velvet Underground, Nico and John Cale -- Simon and Garfunkel -- The Rolling Stones -- Marvin Gaye and Van Morrison -- David Bowie -- Psychedelia. The Byrds -- Love and The Doors -- The west coast pop art experimental band -- Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills and Nash -- Spirit -- Tim Buckley -- The Grateful Dead -- Country Joe and the Fish -- H. P. Lovecraft -- Quicksilver Messenger Service -- The Steve Miller band -- Santana -- Folk ambience -- Rock evolves. Pink Floyd -- Keith Emerson, King Crimson and Yes -- Led Zeppelin -- Mike Oldfield -- The German Scene. Can -- Faust -- NEU! -- Tangerine Dream -- Popul Vuh -- Roedelius, Cluster and Harmonia -- Manuel Gottsching and Ash Ra Tempel -- Kraftwerk -- Klaus Schulze -- Holger Czukay -- Synthesizer music. Beaver and Krause -- Tonto's Expanding Headband -- Tim Blake -- Jean-Michel Jarre -- Vangelis -- The indie wave. Cabaret Voltaire -- New Order and Joy Division -- The Durutti Column -- Colin Newman -- The Cocteau Twins -- Sonic Youth -- Dead Can Dance -- Spacemen 3, Sonic Boom and Spiritualized -- Individualists. Ennio Morricone -- Todd Rundgren -- John McLaughlin -- Robert Fripp -- Peter Gabriel -- Bill Nelson -- Laurie Anderson -- Ryuichi Sakamoto -- Seigen Ono -- David Sylvian -- Michael Brook -- U2 -- Daniel Lanois -- Enya -- Book four. House, techno and twenty-first-century ambience. Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder -- New York Garage and Electro -- Chicago House and Acid House -- Derrick May and Detroit Techno -- Ann Dudley and The Art of Noise -- 808 State -- A Guy Called Gerald -- Ecstasy and the New Rave Psychedelia -- The KLF -- The Stone Roses and Primal Scream -- Orbital -- Enigma and Spiritual House -- The Otb and Ambient House -- Mixmaster Morris -- The Future Sound of London -- Aphex Twin -- Pete Namlook and Ambient Techno -- Bill Lawswell and Collision Music -- William Orbit -- Scanner, Biosphere and Isolationism -- Massive Attack, Tricky and Trip-Hop -- Coldcut -- DJ Shadow and DJ Spooky -- Goldie and Ambient Drum and Bass -- Courtney Pine and Trip Jazz -- Talvin Singh and Anokha -- Dub Reggae -- Trance -- The Chemical Brothers and Rock Techno -- Air -- Twentieth-century ambience - the essential 100 recordings. |
| Abstract | This book reveals the drift in twentieth-century music. From composers to non-musicians. From strict rules to no rules. From the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage. From the Indian-influenced Minimalism of Philip Glass and Terry Riley to the 'unlocking' sound worlds of Brian Eno and Arvo Parti through the epoch-defining music of rock maestros The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix down to the pure electronic creations of Kraftwerk, Goldie and Trance - this drift through technology, Minimalism, the rock era and Techno is earthed by the development in Ambient Sound, to the author the most important breakthrough in music of the past one hundred years. Aided by electronics, new ideas and mass consumption, Ambient has established itself beyond question as 'the classical music of the Future.' |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-482), discography (pages 474-476) and index. |
| LCCN | 00046800 |
| ISBN | 1582341346 |
| ISBN | 9781582341347 |
| ISBN | 0747542139 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780747542131 (pbk.) |
| Technical rpt number | 082001 |