


Musique concrète and the ancient art of tape composition - Composing with tape - Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, and the institutionalization of sound - Origins in France - The German School - Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and the Columbia Tape Music Center - 6. Electronic pioneers : Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein, and Hammond - Thaddeus Cahill and the Telharmonium - The theremin : electronic music for everybody - The Ondes Martenot - The Trautonium and Mixturtrautonium - The electronic organ - 5. Musical precedents to electronic music : origins of the avant-garde - Alternate pitch systems, new scales, and atonality - The "art of noise" in music - 4. Electronic music resources - The components of sound - Waveforms - Making electronic music : a lexicon of materials - Oscillators - Controllers - Additive and subtractive synthesis - Envelope shaping - Amplitude modulation (AM) - Frequency modulation (FM) - Ring modulation - Other electronic music techniques and effects - 3.

What is electronic music? - Purely electronic music - Electroacoustic music - 2. Introduction : new technology, new music, new listening - 1. Includes bibliographical references and index Previous edition: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985 The second edition of a classic text on the history of electronic music, this book has been thoroughly updated to present material on home computers and the Internet, as well as enlarged sections on history and theoretical issues
