Dictionary of Musical Technology
Tristram Cary's remarkable encyclopedia is the first comprehensive book on the technology of music. Its 600 copiously illustrated main entries and 200 subsidiary ones cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement, and psychoacoustics. They are carefully cross-referenced so that readers can approach a topic from different angles and then be drawn into its complexities, both technical and musical, as far as they wish.

This volume will be an essential reference work for music and audio professionals, students, and all music lovers wanting to know more about the techniques behind the music.

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Dictionary of Musical Technology
Tristram Cary's remarkable encyclopedia is the first comprehensive book on the technology of music. Its 600 copiously illustrated main entries and 200 subsidiary ones cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement, and psychoacoustics. They are carefully cross-referenced so that readers can approach a topic from different angles and then be drawn into its complexities, both technical and musical, as far as they wish.

This volume will be an essential reference work for music and audio professionals, students, and all music lovers wanting to know more about the techniques behind the music.

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Dictionary of Musical Technology

Dictionary of Musical Technology

by Tristam Cary
Dictionary of Musical Technology

Dictionary of Musical Technology

by Tristam Cary

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Tristram Cary's remarkable encyclopedia is the first comprehensive book on the technology of music. Its 600 copiously illustrated main entries and 200 subsidiary ones cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement, and psychoacoustics. They are carefully cross-referenced so that readers can approach a topic from different angles and then be drawn into its complexities, both technical and musical, as far as they wish.

This volume will be an essential reference work for music and audio professionals, students, and all music lovers wanting to know more about the techniques behind the music.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313286940
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/30/1992
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.44(d)

About the Author

TRISTRAM CARY is a distinguished composer and one of the world's leading experts on electronic music, a field in which he was a pioneer. He was founder of the Royal College of Music electronic music studio in 1967 and later became a lecturer at the universities of Melbourne and Adelaide. He is also a writer and broadcaster.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Dictionary
Select Bibliography

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