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The Ambient Century. From Mahler to Moby - The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age.
Mark Prendergast
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Description for The Ambient Century. From Mahler to Moby - The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age.
Paperback. Reveals the drift in twentieth-century music from composers to non-musicians, from strict rules to no rules and from the single note to the sample. Num Pages: 544 pages, ports. BIC Classification: AVGC6. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 30. Weight in Grams: 806.
THE AMBIENT CENTURY passionately reveals the drift in twentieth-century music from composers to non-musicians, from strict rules to no rules and from the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage; from the Indian-influenced minimalism of Phillip Glass and terry riley to the 'unlocking' sound worlds of Brian Eno and Arvo part; through the epoch-defining music of rock maestros The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to the pure electronic creations of Kraftwerk, Goldie and Trance - this drift through technology, Minimalism, the rock ... Read more
THE AMBIENT CENTURY passionately reveals the drift in twentieth-century music from composers to non-musicians, from strict rules to no rules and from the single note to the sample. From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage; from the Indian-influenced minimalism of Phillip Glass and terry riley to the 'unlocking' sound worlds of Brian Eno and Arvo part; through the epoch-defining music of rock maestros The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to the pure electronic creations of Kraftwerk, Goldie and Trance - this drift through technology, Minimalism, the rock ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747557326
SKU
V9780747557326
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About Mark Prendergast
Mark Prendergast, born in Dublin, is the author of more than one million words on New and Electronic music. He has written about classical music and rock for newspapers, journals and magazines worldwide and authored the first definitive history of Irish rock. Now resident in London, his THE AMBIENT CENTURY is the culmination of two decades listening with "all gates ... Read more
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