Electronic and experimental music
Subtitle: technology, music, and culture
By: Thom Holmes
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781138792722; 9781138792739; 9781315684796
Subjects: Textbooks; History and criticism; Computer music; Electronic music
Notes: "Companion website features ... resources such as additional Listening Guides, links to streaming audio examples and online video resources, PowerPoint slides, and interactive quizzes"--Back cover.

"A concise history of computer music": pages 501-509; "Glossary": pages 512-523.

Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.

Access to resources on companion website is restricted to single user who creates online account using unique access code printed inside text.
Table of contents: title: Early history : predecessors and pioneers (1874 to 1960). Electronic music before 1945 ; Early electronic music in Europe ; Early electronic music in the United States and Latin America ; Early electronic music in Asia and Oceania; title: Analog synthesis and instruments. Tape composition and fundamental concepts of electronic music ; Early synthesizers and experimenters ; Principles of analog synthesis and voltage control ; The voltage-controlled synthesizer; title: Digital synthesis and computer music. Early computer music (1953-85) ; The microprocessor revolution (1975-present) ; The principles of computer music; title: The music. Contemporary classical and experimental music ; Jazz, live electronic music, and ambient music ; Rock, space age pop, and turntablism ; Contemporary practices in composing electronic music.