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.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
The Dictionary
Select Bibliography

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tristram Cary, Cary Tristam
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.1992
• EAN: 9780313286940
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28694-0
• No. of pages: 576
• Weight: 964 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General, MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Electronic, Reference works, Electronic musical instruments, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts