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Authors: Samuel Pellman
ISBN-13: 9780534214500, ISBN-10: 0534214509
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
This text aims to be accessible to students relatively inexperienced with electronic musical technology, while also sufficiently detailed for technical and musical achievement. Furthermore, it stresses the notion that, despite all the attention given to technique, the principal goal is musical expression.
Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
Ch. 1 | From Sound to Electricity, and Back | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Music from Tape Recorders | 31 |
Ch. 3 | Digital Recording | 61 |
Ch. 4 | Multiple-Track Recording and Mixing | 81 |
Ch. 5 | The Musical Instrument Digital Interface | 127 |
Ch. 6 | Advanced MIDI Networks | 181 |
Ch. 7 | Tone Colors | 209 |
Ch. 8 | Analog Sound Synthesis | 225 |
Ch. 9 | Digital Sound Sampling and Synthesis | 267 |
Ch. 10 | Composing Electroacoustic Music | 315 |
Ch. 11 | The Audience for Electroacoustic Music | 359 |
Ch. 12 | Technology and Music: From the Past to the Future | 393 |
Appendix A: Hints for Microphone Placement in Common Recording and Sound-Reinforcement Situations | 401 | |
Appendix B: Other Systems of Numbers | 404 | |
Appendix C: Further Details of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface | 408 | |
Appendix D: Suggested Listening | 422 | |
Appendix E: The Interaction of Music and Technology: A Case Study | 430 | |
Index | 435 |