Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mayuzumi, Toshiro
• Cox, Cathy L.

Titel

The Principles of Electronic Music (1956)

Ist Teil von

• Contemporary music review, 2018-03, Vol.37 (1-2), p.100-120

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• First published in the April 1956 issue of the magazine Ongaku Geijutsu (The Art of Music), and drawing heavily on two German texts from 1954 that had been unofficially translated into Japanese, composer and electronic music pioneer Toshiro Mayuzumi presents an overview of electronic music divided into four sections: (1) a historical perspective positioning electronic music as developing from 12-tone compositional techniques; (2) a brief history and overview of activities of the Cologne Electronic Music Studio; (3) an overview of the techniques of electronic music, including an account of Mayuzumi's first experimental electronic music composition, Music for Sine Waves by Sequences of Prime Number Ratios (1955) composed at the NHK studio in Tokyo; and (4) some of the composer's own thoughts on the tasks and future of electronic music. This article appears here translated into English for the first time.