Analytical methods of electroacoustic music / edited by Mary Simoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simoni, Mary Hope.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic music--History and criticism.

Electronic music.

Computer music--History and criticism.

Computer music.

Physical Description:

vii, 301 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: most materials are playable on a NTSC Region 1 DVD player; some materials require a DVD-ROM drive on a computer system.

Summary:

This collection of essays on electroacoustic music explores the creative possibilities to be found in various forms of musical analysis. Taking pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre as the four basic elements of music, the authors discuss electroacoustic works. In this analysis, they examine the applications of neumes, contemporary staff notation, Csound orchestra and score files, time-domain representations, and spectrograms. They take into consideration both the positive (preservation of the abstract) and negative (creative limitation) aspects of these analytical methods. This text contains extensive artwork serving as demonstration, as well as a DVD with sound and video clips.

Contents:

Introduction / by Mary Simoni

Visualization of musical signals / by Norman Adams

The intention/reception project / by Leigh Landy

Paul Lansky's As if / by Mary Simoni

Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room / by Benjamin Broening

Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos plango, vivos voco / by Michael Clarke

Philippe Manoury's Jupiter / by Andrew May

Barry Truax's Riverrun / by Mara Helmuth

Philippe Manoury's Opera K

/ by Momilani Ramstrum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.

ISBN:

0415976294

OCLC:

60515221