Electronic & Experimental Music: Technology Music & Culture Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music covering key composers genres & techniques used in both analog & digital synthesis. This textbook has been greatly expanded & revised with the needs of both students & instructors in mind. The reader-friendly style logical organization & pedagogical features provide easy access to key ideas milestones & concepts. Now a four-part text with fourteen chapters the new fourth edition features new content: Audio CD of classic works of electronic music-a first for this book. Listening Guides providing annotated moment-by-moment exploration of classic works-a new chapter feature that improves critical listening skills. Expanded global representation with new discussions of classic electronic music in the United Kingdom Italy Latin America & Asia New discussion of early experiments with jazz & electronic music More on the roots of electronic rock music. Additional accounts of the under-reported contributions of women composers in the field including new discussions of Daphne Oram Delia Derbyshire Lily Greenham Teresa Rampazzi & Jacqueline Nova Two appendices that trace the evolution of analog & digital synthesis technology. The companion website launching June 2012
Includes:: a number of student & instructor resources such as additional Listening Guides links to audio & video resources on the internet Power Point slides & interactive quizzes.