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Electronic and Computer Music. By Peter Manning. Revised and expanded ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [x, 474 p. ISBN 0-19-517085-7. $35.00.] Bibliography, illustrations, discography, index, photos.

No other genre of music has experienced such expansion, in terms of both mechanics and craft, as electroacoustic music has in its approximately 100 year history, a history as much about the developing technology as it is about the music itself. As director of the electroacoustic music studio at the University of Durham, Peter Manning has the background and experience that enables him to provide a thoughtful and thorough account of electroacoustic music, ...

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