Tristram Cary's encyclopaedia aims to provide comprehensive information on the technology of music. Its 600 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 should 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.
Tristram Cary's encyclopaedia aims to provide comprehensive information on the technology of music. Its 600 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 should 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.
This remarkable encyclopedia is the first comprehensive book on the technology of music, written by one of the world's leading experts on electronic music. Its 600 copiously illustrated main entries and 200 subsidiary ones cover an immense musical field.
Preface
Introduction
The Dictionary
Select Bibliography
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.
"This well-illustrated book will be a valuable addition on the
technical side of electronic music. Composers, many students, and
electronic music studios . . . will find [it] more useful than any
other. It is the result of a lifetime's experience by a composer .
. . who has specialized in the medium and has always had a hands-on
relationship with the equipment."-Hugh Davies
?. . . also has managed to incorporate many of his interesting
perspectives on the subject while retaining the factual integrity
expected of a reference work." ARBA" . . . this is a useful and
fascinating work. . . . Cary's work is the most substantive and
comprehensive of the recently published dictionaries on this
subject.?-RQ
?Cary's excellent reference book has multi-page articles on such
topics as analog and digital synthesis techniques, computer music,
loudspeakers, microphones, MIDI, reverberation, sound recording
techniques, and tape recorder design. The book is a gold mine of
information that surely will appear in the reference sections of
all major libraries in the English-speaking world.?-Jazz Times
?Highly recommended for purchase lby academic and large public
libraries.?-Choice
?The book is a gold mine of information that surely will appear in
the reference sections of all major libraries in the
English-speaking world. And many musicians eventually will want to
add it to their personal libraries, as well.?-Jazz Times
?This book should be an essential part of a reference collection in
music libraries. It is a wonderful gateway for non-specialists into
a very difficult field.?-Music Reference Services Quarterly
." . . also has managed to incorporate many of his interesting
perspectives on the subject while retaining the factual integrity
expected of a reference work." ARBA" . . . this is a useful and
fascinating work. . . . Cary's work is the most substantive and
comprehensive of the recently published dictionaries on this
subject."-RQ
"Highly recommended for purchase lby academic and large public
libraries."-Choice
"The book is a gold mine of information that surely will appear in
the reference sections of all major libraries in the
English-speaking world. And many musicians eventually will want to
add it to their personal libraries, as well."-Jazz Times
"This book should be an essential part of a reference collection in
music libraries. It is a wonderful gateway for non-specialists into
a very difficult field."-Music Reference Services Quarterly
"Cary's excellent reference book has multi-page articles on such
topics as analog and digital synthesis techniques, computer music,
loudspeakers, microphones, MIDI, reverberation, sound recording
techniques, and tape recorder design. The book is a gold mine of
information that surely will appear in the reference sections of
all major libraries in the English-speaking world."-Jazz Times
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