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This text aims to be accessible to students relatively inexperienced
with electronic musical technology, while also being sufficiently detailed
for technical and musical achievement. Furthermore, it stresses the
notion that, despite all the attention given to technique, the principal
goal is musical expression.
- Attempts to help students make the best of the music they already
hope to write and fervently encourages students to experiment.
- Includes brief etudes, or ''studies,'' that provide first-hand
experience with specific techniques or concepts. They provide glimpses
of the amazing universe of possible sounds and textures that can be
created with electroacoustic musical instruments.
- Focuses on well-established methods of instruction; and because
of the rapid obsolescence of most of the electronic musical instruments,
it treats hardware in a generic way, with specific mention only of
those products that have achieved indisputably historic status.
- Covers valuable information on acoustics throughout the text.
- Includes several "Guides to Listening" that highlight the achievements
of composers in meeting the unique challenges of the medium.
- Over 250 photos, illustrations, charts and drawings. Includes lists
of important terms introduced in the chapters, suggestions for further
reading, and an annotated discography.
Table of Contents
1. From Sound to Electricity, and Back. 2. Music from Tape Recorders.
3. Digital Recording. 4. Multiple-Track Recording and Mixing. 5. The Musical
Instrument Digital Interface. 6. Advanced MIDI Networks. 7. Tone Colors.
8. Analog Sound Synthesis. 9. Digital Sound Sampling and Synthesis. 10.
Composing Electroacoustic Music. 11. The Audience for Electroacoustic
Music. 12. Technology and Music: From the Past to the Future. Appendices.
Index.
Published by Wadsworth Publishing
Paperbound © 1994
ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-21450-9
Price: US $52.95
Price: UK £40.50
Price: Canada $62.95
464 pages
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11 INCHES
Status: Available
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