Electronic and computer music - Manning, Peter (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-425), discography (p. [427]-450), and index
The background, to 1945 -- Developments from 1945 to 1960 -- Paris and musique concrète -- Cologne and electronische musik -- Milan and elsewhere in Europe -- America -- New horizons in electronic design -- The voltage-controlled synthesizer -- The electronic repertory from 1960 -- Works for tape -- Live electronic music -- Rock and pop electronic music -- The digital revolution to 1980 -- The foundations of computer music -- From computer technology to musical creativity -- The microprocessor revolution -- The characteristics of digital audio -- MIDI -- The development of the MIDI communications protocol -- From analog to digital: the evolution of MIDI hardware -- From microcomputer to music computer: the MIDI dimension -- New horizons for MIDI-based technologies -- Desktop synthesis and signal processing -- Personal computers and sound processing -- Music workstations and related computing architectures -- The expanding perspective -- Performance controllers -- New horizons in synthesis and signal processing software