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Electronic and computer music [electronic resource] / Peter Manning.

By: Manning, Peter, 1948-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.Description: x, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Electronic music -- History and criticism | Computer music -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 786.7/09 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The background, to 1945 -- Developments from 1945 to 1960 -- Paris and musique concrète -- 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.
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786.7/09 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-425), discography (p. [427]-450), and index.

The background, to 1945 -- Developments from 1945 to 1960 -- Paris and musique concrète -- 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.