Illustrated compendium of musical technology
Tristram Cary · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1992
This compendium on the technology of music contains over 600 main entries and 200 subsidiary ones in a musical field from A-Z, with entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement and psychoac oustics. The references are cross-referenced so that readers can approach topics from different angles and then be drawn into their complexities, both technical and musical, as far as they wish. This book is designed to be of interest to musical and audio professionals, students, and all music lovers wishing to know more about the techniques behind the music.