Electronic and computer music /

Main Author: Manning, Peter 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
Edition:Revised and expanded edition
Subjects:
Table of 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
  • 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.