In this book, which provides a historical perspective (ca.1979), the author offers a survey of music created with and for electronic means of production. The book is structured in three sections: 1) an explanation as to how electronic music developed, its major features, and how is can be listened to; 2) a description of specific kinds of electronic music, including introductions to the work of Stockhausen, Cage, Boulez, Berio, Ligeti, Riley, and Reich; 3) a glossary of terms, and a discography.
Table of contents:
- Orientation
- Retrospect
- Approach
- 2.1 Out of the known
- 2.2 The electronic voice
- 2.3 Out of the unknown
- 2.4 The instrument and its double
- 2.5 Rock
- 2.6 Electronic instruments
- 2.7 Live electronic ensembles
- 2.8 The music of the world
- 3.1 Recordings
- 3.2 Glossary
- 3.3 Bibliography