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The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance—The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age

By Mark Prendergast

Book information

Publisher
Clays
Year
2000
ISBN
1582341346, 9781582341347
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
79 MB (82399605 bytes)
Pages
546\546
Time added
2022-11-04 06:33:11

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This volume describes and examines the drift in 20th century music from composed works to the work of non-musicians, from strict rules to no rules and from the single note to the sample. Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Book 1. The Electronic Landscape Gustav Mahler Erik Satie Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel Frederick Delius Charles Griffes Charles Ives Iberian Sounds William Duddell Thaddeus Cahill Lee de Forest Luigi Russolo Leonn Theremin Maurice Martenot Jorg Mager Frierich Trautwein and Oskar Sala Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg and Anton Webern Leopold Stokowski Edgard Varèse Percy Grainger Olivier Messiaen Paul Bowles Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry John Cage Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky Karlheinz Stockhausen Miles Davis Daphne Oram Raymond Scott György Ligeti Pierre Boulez Iannis Xenakis Morton Feldman Morton Subotnick Wendy Carlos Toru Takamitsu Kaija Saariaho Electronic Media Records Magnetic Tape Keyboards, Synthesizers and Computers Compact Disc Book 2. Minimalism, Eno and the New Simplicity La Monte Young Terry Riley Steve Reich Brian Eno Philip Glass ECM Windham Hill and New Age Music Harold Budd Jon Hassell Michael Nyman John Adams Arvo Pärt Henryk Gorecki John Tavener Other Minimalists Book 3. Ambience in the Rock Era Innovators Leo Fender Les Paul Joe Meek The Beatles Bob Dylan The Beach Boys Jimi Hendrix Ravi Shankar The Velvet Underground, Nico and John Cale Simon & Garfunkel The Rolling Stones Marvin Gaye and Van Morrison David Bowie Psychedelia The Byrds Love and the Doors The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash Spirit Tim Buckley The Grateful Dead Country Joe and the Fish H. P. Lovecraft Quicksilver Messenger Service The Steve Miller Band Satana Folk Ambience Rock Evolves Pink Floyd Keith Emerson, King Crimson, Yes Led Zeppelin Mike Oldfield The German Scene Can Faust Neu! Tangerine Dream Popol Vuh Roedelius, Cluster, Harmonia Manuel Göttsching and Ash Ra Tempel Kraftwerk Klaus Schulze Holger Czukay Synthesizer Music Beaver & Krause Tim Blake Jean-Michel Jarre Vangelis The Indie Wave Cabaret Voltaire New Order and Joy Division The Durutti Column Colin Newman The Cocteau Twins Sonic Youth Dead Can Dance Spacemen 3, Sonic Boom, Spiritualized Individualists Ennio Morricone Todd Rundgren John McLaughlin Robert Fripp Peter Gabriel Bill Nelson Laurie Anderson Ryuichi Sakamoto Seigen Ono David Sylvian Michael Brook Daniel Lanois Enya Book 4. House, Techno and Twenty-First-Century Ambience Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder New York Garage and Electro Chicago House and Acid House Derrick May and Detroit Techno Anne Dudley and The Art of Noise 808 State A Guy Called Gerald Ecstasy and The New Rave Psychedelis The KLF The Stone Roses and Primal Scream Orbital Enigma and Spiritual House The Orb and Ambient House Mixmaster Morris The Future Sound of London Aphex Twin Pete Namlook and Ambient Techno Bill Laswell and Collison Music William Orbit Scanner, Biosphere and Isolationism Massive Attack, Tricky and Trip-Hop Coldcut DJ Shadow and DJ Spooky Goldie and Ambient Drum and Bass Courtney Pine and Trip Jazz Talvin Singh and Anokha Dub Reggae Trance The Chemical Brothers and Rock Techno Moby Afterword Twentieth-century Ambience – the Essential 100 Recordings Bibliography Index

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