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245 10 a| Electronic and experimental music :b| pioneers in technology and composition /c| Thomas B. Holmes.;

250 a| Second edition.;

260 a| London :b| Routledge,c| 2002.;

300 a| xii, 322 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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500 a| Previous edition: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.;

504 a| Includes discography (pages 281-297);

505 0 a| Introduction: new technology, new music, new listening -- 1. What is electronic music? -- Purely electronic music -- Electroacoustic music -- 2. Electronic music resources -- The components of sound -- Waveforms -- Making electronic music: a lexicon of materials -- Oscillators -- Controllers -- Additive and subtractive synthesis -- Envelope shaping -- Amplitude modulation (AM) -- Frequency modulation (FM) -- Ring modulation -- Other electronic music techniques and effects -- 3. Musical precedents to electronic music: origins of the avant-garde -- Alternate pitch systems, new scales, and atonality -- The "art of noise" in music -- 4. Electronic pioneers: Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein, and Hammond -- Thaddeus Cahill and the Telharmonium -- The theremin: electronic music for everybody -- The Ondes Martenot -- The Trautonium and Mixturtrautonium -- The electronic organ -- 5. Musique concrète and the ancient art of tape composition -- Composing with tape -- Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, and the institutionalization of sound -- Origins in France -- The German School -- Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and the Columbia Tape Music Center -- 6. Three pioneers: John Cage, Edgard Varèse, and Karlheinz Stockhausen -- John Cage and the advocacy of chance -- Cage's live performance works -- Cage's influence -- Varèse and Listener's Experiment -- Stockhausen's journey -- 7. A renaissance of inventing: the 1950s -- Raymond Scott: designer of plastic sounds and electronic music devices -- Hugh Le Caine and the Sackbut Blues -- 8. Robert Moog, Wendy Carlos, and the birth of the commercial synthesizer -- The Moog Synthesizer -- Wendy Carlos and the exploration of musical consonance -- Moog goes mainstream -- The Buchla Synthesizer -- Other commercial synthesizers -- 9. Once and future innovators: Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma -- Leading indicators for the future: the Sonic Arts Union (Ashley, Behrman, Lucier, Mumma) -- The San Francisco Tape Music Center -- 10. Music from mainframes: the origins of computer music -- What is digital synthesis? -- Applications of computers in music: an historic view -- A concise history of computer music -- A brief history of soldering and composing -- From transistors to semiconductors -- Then there was software -- 11. Inside electronic music -- Composing electronic music -- Live electronic music improvised -- The art of drones and minimalism -- Process music -- Music of the environment: ambience, meditation, and the art of being where you are -- Turntablism -- 12. Electronic music in the mainstream: a loss of history -- Listening to electronic music: a footnote -- Appendix: Recommended recordings of electronic music -- Electronic music resources.;

520 a| This book covers the history of electronic music throughout the world, and the people who created it. Beginning with the theory of sound production, the book proceeds through the decades, outlining key composers and instrument designers who pioneered electronic music. Beginning with early instrument designers like Thaddeus Cahill and Leon Theremin, the book proceeds through Pierre Henry's and Pierre Schaeffer's early experiments with tape composition; Robert Moog and the birth of the synthesizer; John Cage and his experiments in a number of different electronic media; LaMonte Young and "live" electronic performance; Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma and the pioneering ONCE festivals; the San Francisco school, including Pauline Oliveros and Morton Subotnik; through today's ambient music composers (like Brian Eno) and experimenters in turntablism (DJ Spooky) and electronic music revivalists (like Sonic Youth). The reader is exposed to a variety of approaches to electronic composition, generation, and performance that will inspire further experimentation. The second edition of a classic text on the history of electronic music, this book has been thoroughly updated to present material on home computers and the Internet, as well as enlarged sections on history and theoretical issues.;

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Electronic and experimental music : pioneers in technology and composition / Thomas B. Holmes.

Author/creator	Holmes, Thom
Format	Book
Edition	Second edition.
Publication Info	London : Routledge, 2002.
Description	xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	Electronic music--History and criticism. Avant-garde (Music)

Contents	Introduction: new technology, new music, new listening -- 1. What is electronic music? -- Purely electronic music -- Electroacoustic music -- 2. Electronic music resources -- The components of sound -- Waveforms -- Making electronic music: a lexicon of materials -- Oscillators -- Controllers -- Additive and subtractive synthesis -- Envelope shaping -- Amplitude modulation (AM) -- Frequency modulation (FM) -- Ring modulation -- Other electronic music techniques and effects -- 3. Musical precedents to electronic music: origins of the avant-garde -- Alternate pitch systems, new scales, and atonality -- The "art of noise" in music -- 4. Electronic pioneers: Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein, and Hammond -- Thaddeus Cahill and the Telharmonium -- The theremin: electronic music for everybody -- The Ondes Martenot -- The Trautonium and Mixturtrautonium -- The electronic organ -- 5. Musique concrète and the ancient art of tape composition -- Composing with tape -- Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, and the institutionalization of sound -- Origins in France -- The German School -- Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and the Columbia Tape Music Center -- 6. Three pioneers: John Cage, Edgard Varèse, and Karlheinz Stockhausen -- John Cage and the advocacy of chance -- Cage's live performance works -- Cage's influence -- Varèse and Listener's Experiment -- Stockhausen's journey -- 7. A renaissance of inventing: the 1950s -- Raymond Scott: designer of plastic sounds and electronic music devices -- Hugh Le Caine and the Sackbut Blues -- 8. Robert Moog, Wendy Carlos, and the birth of the commercial synthesizer -- The Moog Synthesizer -- Wendy Carlos and the exploration of musical consonance -- Moog goes mainstream -- The Buchla Synthesizer -- Other commercial synthesizers -- 9. Once and future innovators: Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma -- Leading indicators for the future: the Sonic Arts Union (Ashley, Behrman, Lucier, Mumma) -- The San Francisco Tape Music Center -- 10. Music from mainframes: the origins of computer music -- What is digital synthesis? -- Applications of computers in music: an historic view -- A concise history of computer music -- A brief history of soldering and composing -- From transistors to semiconductors -- Then there was software -- 11. Inside electronic music -- Composing electronic music -- Live electronic music improvised -- The art of drones and minimalism -- Process music -- Music of the environment: ambience, meditation, and the art of being where you are -- Turntablism -- 12. Electronic music in the mainstream: a loss of history -- Listening to electronic music: a footnote -- Appendix: Recommended recordings of electronic music -- Electronic music resources.
Abstract	This book covers the history of electronic music throughout the world, and the people who created it. Beginning with the theory of sound production, the book proceeds through the decades, outlining key composers and instrument designers who pioneered electronic music. Beginning with early instrument designers like Thaddeus Cahill and Leon Theremin, the book proceeds through Pierre Henry's and Pierre Schaeffer's early experiments with tape composition; Robert Moog and the birth of the synthesizer; John Cage and his experiments in a number of different electronic media; LaMonte Young and "live" electronic performance; Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma and the pioneering ONCE festivals; the San Francisco school, including Pauline Oliveros and Morton Subotnik; through today's ambient music composers (like Brian Eno) and experimenters in turntablism (DJ Spooky) and electronic music revivalists (like Sonic Youth). The reader is exposed to a variety of approaches to electronic composition, generation, and performance that will inspire further experimentation. The second edition of a classic text on the history of electronic music, this book has been thoroughly updated to present material on home computers and the Internet, as well as enlarged sections on history and theoretical issues.
General note	Previous edition: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.
Bibliography note	Includes discography (pages 281-297)
ISBN	0415936438
ISBN	0415936446 (PBK.)

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