The Language of Twentieth Century Music

Fülszöveg

• What was Kulturobolschevismus?
• What is the Monte Carlo Method?
• How do you play an etherophone?
• What is an envelope? pinic noise? a ring modulator?
• What is a dead cue? double tracking? a snealc start?
• What is a doinic? How does it differ from a smear?
• What does a moviola do?
Here is a comprehensive, and long overdue, lexicon of terms in all areas of contemporary music, from serial and electronic to jazz, rock, and multimedia. It is for students and teachers on all levels, of course, but is just as much for the disc jockey trying to decipher arcane record-liner notes and the ordinary music lover who wants to be able to talk intelligently about the music of our time,
Up to now, you had to go to specialized books and journals to find definitions of important terms in avant-garde music, and the fields of jazz and rock have been arbitrarily, and artificially, left out of conventional dictionaries. But no more. Robert Fink and Robert Ricci have gathered together... Tovább

Fülszöveg

• What was Kulturobolschevismus?
• What is the Monte Carlo Method?
• How do you play an etherophone?
• What is an envelope? pinic noise? a ring modulator?
• What is a dead cue? double tracking? a snealc start?
• What is a doinic? How does it differ from a smear?
• What does a moviola do?
Here is a comprehensive, and long overdue, lexicon of terms in all areas of contemporary music, from serial and electronic to jazz, rock, and multimedia. It is for students and teachers on all levels, of course, but is just as much for the disc jockey trying to decipher arcane record-liner notes and the ordinary music lover who wants to be able to talk intelligently about the music of our time,
Up to now, you had to go to specialized books and journals to find definitions of important terms in avant-garde music, and the fields of jazz and rock have been arbitrarily, and artificially, left out of conventional dictionaries. But no more. Robert Fink and Robert Ricci have gathered together practically everything you need to know about music in the twentieth century, including important related material available nowhere else. In addition, they have provided an extensive bibliography and a unique topical index, including:
• important abbreviations
• movements in art and their relationship to music
• chance music
• compositional techniques
• computer music
• electronic musical instruments
• electronic music synthesis
• electronic sound reproduction
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