Analytical Methods of Electroacoustic Music

ISBN-13: 9780415976299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 301 str.

Mary Simoni

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments  1. Introduction  2. Visualization of Musical Signals  3. The Intention/Reception Project  4. Paul Lansky's As If  5. Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room  6. Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco  7. Philippe Manoury's Jupiter  8. Barry Truax's Riverrun  9. Philippe Manoury's Opera K  Annotated Bibliography  Glossary  Contributors  Index

O autorze

Mary Simoni is a Professor of Music Technology, Chair of the Department of Performing Arts Technology, and Associate Dean for Technology Initiatives at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The MIT Press, the International Computer Music Association, and Centaur Records have published her music and writings.