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  2. Electronic music - Wikipedia

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    Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

  3. List of electronic music genres - Wikipedia

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    In its early development, electronic music was associated almost exclusively with Western art music, but from the late 1960s, the availability of affordable music technology—particularly of synthesizers—meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domains of rock and pop music and classical ...

  4. Modulations: A History of Electronic Music - Wikipedia

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    Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound is a 2000 book edited by Peter Shapiro. [1] [2] [3] It is a companion piece to the documentary film Modulations: Cinema for the Ear.

  5. Music technology (electronic and digital) - Wikipedia

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    Coinciding with the history of computer music is the history of vocal synthesis. Prior to Max Matthews synthesizing speech with a computer, analog devices were used to recreate speech. In the 1930s, an engineer named Holmer Dudley invented the VODER (Voice Operated Demonstrator), an electro-mechanical device which generated a sawtooth wave and ...

  6. Timeline of electronic music genres - Wikipedia

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    A timeline of electronic music genres, with a date of origin, ... Genre Date of origin Locale of origin Electroacoustic music: Early 1940s Egypt Musique concrète:

  7. Timeline of music technology - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of music technology provides the major dates in the history of electric music technologies inventions from the 1800s to the early 1900s and electronic and digital music technologies from 1874 to the 2010s.

  8. Electronic musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer. An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener.

  9. Bebe and Louis Barron - Wikipedia

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    Music historians have often noted how groundbreaking the soundtrack was in the development of electronic music. On the album sleeve notes of the Forbidden Planet soundtrack, Louis and Bebe explain: We design and construct electronic circuits [that] function electronically in a manner remarkably similar to the way that lower life-forms function ...