Research Catalog

Title

Electronic and computer music / Peter Manning.

Author

Manning, Peter, 1948-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

x, 474 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Electronic music > History and criticism
• Computer music > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.[409]-425), discography (p. [427]-450), and index.

Contents

The background, to 1945 -- Developments from 1945 to 1960 -- Paris and Musique concrete -- Cologne and Electronische musik -- Milan and elsewhere in Europe -- America -- New horizons in electronic design -- The voltage-controlled synthesizer -- The electronic repertory from 1960 -- Works for tape -- Live electronic music -- Rock and pop electronic music -- The digital revolution to 1980 -- The foundations of computer music -- From computer technology to musical creativity -- The microprocessor revolution -- Digital audio -- The characteristics of digital audio -- MIDI -- The development of the MIDI communications protocol -- From analog to digital: the evolution of MIDI hardware -- From microcomputer to music computer: the MIDI dimension -- New horizons for MIDI-based technologies -- Desktop synthesis and signal processing -- Personal computers and sound processing -- Music workstations and related computing architectures -- The expanding perspective -- Performance controllers -- New horizons in synthesis and signal processing software.

Call Number

JME 04-159

ISBN

• 0195144848 (hardback)
• 0195170857 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002155278

OCLC

vendor

Author

Manning, Peter, 1948-

Title

Electronic and computer music / Peter Manning.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Edition

Rev. and expanded edition.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p.[409]-425), discography (p. [427]-450), and index.

Research Call Number

JME 04-159