Electronic and Computer Music
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Book Overview
In this revised and expanded third edition of the classic text on the history and evolution of electronic and computer music, Peter Manning provides the definitive account of the medium from its birth to the present day.
After explaining the antecedents of electronic music from the turn of the century to the Second World War, Manning discusses the emergence of early "classical" studios of the 1950s. He goes on to chronicle the upsurge of creative...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195170857
ISBN13:9780195170856
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:474 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Complete and Detailed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
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.
Technical but digestable
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
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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