This is a revised and expanded edition of Peter Manning's classic introduction to electronic and computer music, dealing with the development of electronic and computer music from its birth to the present day. After an introductory chapter concerned with the antecedents of electronic music from the turn of the century to the Second World War, the book continues with the birth and development of the early "classical" studios of the 1950s, examined both in terms of their design philosophy and also their compositional output. A chapter devoted to the characteristics of voltage control technology leads to a study of the subsequent upsurge of creative activity, considered under three headings: tape works, live electronic music, and the early use of electronics in rock and pop music. Attention is then turned to the sphere of computer music and its evolution from the early experiments with large commercial computers to the advanced music workstations of today. This section has been significantly expanded from the first edition to take account of the rapid development of this technology since the early 1980s, in particular the introduction of MIDI and the increasing use of the personal computer as a music tool. A bibliography and an extensive discography are included. The primary objective throughout is to provide the reader with a critical perspective of the medium both in terms of its musical output and the philosophical and technical features which have shaped its growth.
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From reviews of the First Edition: "A deeply informed and lucidly written book.... [It] is invaluable for its thorough history and technical explanation, a fair bibliography and a useful discography. In its detailed information and balanced treatment, this book has no rivals."-- Hi-Fi News and Record Review
"This is a thoroughly recommended book which covers the enormous field with commendable organization."-- Tempo
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Peter Manning is unofficial consultative editor of OUP's Computer and Digital Audio Series, co-published with A-R Editions, Inc. He has written various articles and contributed the `Computer' entry in the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1985). He lives in Durham.
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This book is a nice overview of electronic and computer music (as one might gather from the title.) It's great to sit near a computer and research some of the composers and pieces discussed, as many of them are on youtube and at least sound clips are available somewhere online. You're not going to learn how to program or compose from this book, but it's great for getting a decent background of what went on from 1890-1990.
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This book is a must have in addition with the Chadabe's Electric Sound, and Holmes's Electronic and Experimental Music. Manning gets more specific about the qualities and characteristics of electronic music. A must have for those actively involved in the production, recording, technical, compositional, or performance aspects of computer music.
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Buried among the records of the United States patent office for the year 1897 is a rather unusual entry, no. 580.035, registered in the name of Thaddeus Cahill. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
punched tape columns, voltage control technology, relay tree, synthesizer industry, plan harmonique, preset voices, envelope shaper, natural sound world, common music notation, music workstation, synthesizer market, live electronic music, natural sound sources, live synthesis, computer music systems, channel voice messages, internal sequencer, digital oscillators, objets sonores, synthesizer manufacturers, tempered pitches, signal processing section, objet sonore, audio synthesis, synthesis facilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Apple Macintosh, Bell Telephone Laboratories, United States, John Cage, Sequential Circuits, Tape Music, Barry Vercoe, Electronic Music Foundation, Max Mathews, Second World War, Tangerine Dream, Time Figure, Barry Truax, Fontana Mix, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, James Moorer, Robert Moog, Samson Box, Stanford University, Stevie Wonder, Pierre Boulez, University of Toronto, Brian Eno, David Tudor New!
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Buried among the records of the United States patent office for the year 1897 is a rather unusual entry, no. 580.035, registered in the name of Thaddeus Cahill. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
punched tape columns, voltage control technology, relay tree, synthesizer industry, plan harmonique, preset voices, envelope shaper, natural sound world, common music notation, music workstation, synthesizer market, live electronic music, natural sound sources, live synthesis, computer music systems, channel voice messages, internal sequencer, digital oscillators, objets sonores, synthesizer manufacturers, tempered pitches, signal processing section, objet sonore, audio synthesis, synthesis facilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Apple Macintosh, Bell Telephone Laboratories, United States, John Cage, Sequential Circuits, Tape Music, Barry Vercoe, Electronic Music Foundation, Max Mathews, Second World War, Tangerine Dream, Time Figure, Barry Truax, Fontana Mix, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, James Moorer, Robert Moog, Samson Box, Stanford University, Stevie Wonder, Pierre Boulez, University of Toronto, Brian Eno, David Tudor New!
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- Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, No 6) by Iannis Xenakis on 4 pages
- The Mathematical Basis of the Arts (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Joseph Schillinger on page 7, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Explaining Music: Essays and Explorations (A Phoenix book ; P769) by Leonard B. Meyer on page 75, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E Shannon on page 71, page 391, and Back Matter
- The Art of Noises (Monographs in Musicology) by Luigi Russolo on page 4, and Back Matter
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- Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century by Hans-Joachim Braun on page 18, page 50, and page 111
- Computer Sound Design, Second Edition: Synthesis techniques and programming (Music Technology) by Eduardo Miranda on page 9, and Back Matter
- Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician (Music Technology) by Eduardo Miranda on page 195
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